Day 28 - Downunder 2016 - Mon - 10/24/16 - At sea to Hamilton Island

On this sea day we left the room this morning to a stronger smell of sewage and spoke with our cabin attendants who had reported the issue two days ago.

Fortunately up in the Lido for breakfast, it was a pleasant and sunny day to eat breakfast before the morning devotional time with Reverand Barry. Afterwards I went to the Windows 10 class and realized it's no longer sponsored by Microsoft. A HAL employee teaches them. These classes are very popular but for me a bit too basic. And they avoid all issues of connectivity with Apple or Android products which is sad as MANY guests have questions along those lines. I'd love to teach or share that sort of information.

As the Seattle Seahawks were playing on Sunday night football (shown here on Monday morning), we watched the game until 11:30am and went to a special Indonesian Luncheon for the guests doing the two segments of the cruise. The food was the most flavorful of the cruise so far. We adjourned back to the Crow's Nest to watch the remainder of the game which resulted in a 3-3 tie.

During the Captain's noon navigational and meteorological update, he reminded us about protecting ourselves from the Zika virus by covering up in the Indonesian ports and using bug spray (which we have!).

We then joined the afternoon speaker (Philip Creaser) presentation on Volcanoes and Limestone formations around the world many of which are World Heritage sites. He's a great speaker who doesn't read from notes! He was followed by Louis Green, an Aboriginal artist, who gave a digeridoo presentation that was quite good. He answered a number of questions about aboriginal culture and digi's.

From there we headed out to deck 6 to walk off the big lunch (20 laps or about 5 miles). The seas were calm and with a following breeze, there was no apparent wind. The temperature was quite comfortable as we are sailing north to the equator.

We took a very light dinner in the Lido as the lunch was so filling. The evening's entertainment was Vox Furtura, a men's quartet and talent finalists in Britain's Got Talent TV show. They were superb! We also took in the movie, Jane Got a Gun, before watching the end of the second Vox Furtura show.