Bali -> Cairnes

please note – the map matches the “old cruise” and not the new list above. Darwin has been added and apparently the Papua New Guinea small island ports have sustained some damage and may not be open. Needless to say – there are some very unhappy passengers. For most of us – this leg has the Great Barrier Reef visit and the rest is just icing.

Disembarkation ran smoothly this morning and by 0930 George & I were in the few remaining passengers on ship. There are 60 remaining from the previous leg (some from Hong Kong and some from when we boarded in Yokohama). We are not gaining as many as we are losing. Doesn’t bother me at all, I enjoy the lower number of passengers. Additionally, some of the more entitled are off the ship and staying in Bali for a week or so. Also some really wonderful people. The first group? Meh, the second I will sorely miss.

As the distances from the port to anything really interesting that I would like to do aren’t particularly short, I am not going anywhere today. The idea of driving a couple of hours to turn around and drive back to make the ships departure would have just made me a bit too anxious.

So instead – you get the water views – and the new terminal (obviously newer and shinier than when I was here in 2013).

we passed this spit of land with larger homes, boat slips and lots of small and medium size boats on the port side as we sailed into the harbor.  I didn’t take photos of the larger planes inbound as we crossed under their flight path but counted five in less than 30 minutes. Thinking these are night flight departures from more distant cities.

Bali is the country (region of Indonesia anyway) and Benoa the city.

This is the new terminal complex where we were along side by shortly after 0700.