The high seas that have dogged us for the last couple of days at last abated and Tuesday turned out to be a lovely day. Unfortunately,due to the course that the captain had to take and the slower speed, we were likely to reach Margaret River some six hours late. It was thus decided that we would miss that stop and sail onwards to Fremantle. The good news was that we would be in Fremantle some twelve hours early at 8.00 pm Wednesday, but the downside was that we would leave early due to the iminent arrival of Tropical Cyclone Marcus. This is a category 5 cyclone that is tracking off the coast of Western Australia directly on our route. That should be fun!!
In the meantime I took advantage of the sunshine to catch up with some reading on the balcony.
Tuesday was also Win and Jim’s wedding anniversary and so we joined them for a celebratory meal in the Crown Grill, a speciality restaurant that serves superb steaks. While Win Jim and myself enjoyed some very large steaks, Sylvia went for the sea bass. As a special treat the waiters gathered together to sing “Happy Anniversary” and present them with a small cake. A very pleasant evening with great friends.
The sunshine stayed with us on Wednesday morning and it was a pleasure to see everybody enjoying the heat.
We continued our journey toward Fremantle passing Rottnest Island just before a quite spectacular sunset.
The ship arrived on time which gave us a quick opportunity to walk into the town, and take a few photos of the Anglican church.....
.....some of the older buildings......
.....and the information centre.
Tomorrow we are meeting up with Andrew and family who are taking us on a short tour of Perth, we are really looking forward to this.
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