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On our last visit to Bali, 3 years ago, the ship had to moor a long way from the port ensuring a very long tender ride. Thankfully today we slowly steamed up the deep water channel with amazing views of the distant mountains and tree lined shores with local fisherman out for an early morning catch in their small outrigger and docked right at the cruise terminal. A local business with the catchy name of “Bali Hai” painted on its roof caught my attention and recalled a distant

Unfortunately, not much to report today…   Our last visit to Darwin was memorable for all of the wrong reasons; the temperature barely dropped below 100F with very high humidity, and we had a terrible shore excursion – we also thought the town was stuck in a 1970’s time warp. So for this visit we seriously contemplated staying on the ship, especially since there had been very heavy rains over the last few days and there were reports of flooding in some areas, and saltwater cr

Before I get to Airlie Beach, I wanted to briefly touch on an event that occurred while we were at sea yesterday, March 11 th , 2026. Another Cunard ship, the Queen Mary 2, left Southampton in England on the same day we did here on Queen Anne; Queen Mary 2 set off on a world voyage going westward while we set off going eastward. This morning at 7:30AM the two ships passed each other off the east coast of Australia, this was the first time the two ships had met outside of a ha