Michael Bublé and Caviar

August 01, 2025

Michael Bublé and Caviar

On Thursday 31st July, I didn't get up at sparrow's fart, just laid in bed thinking "I'm in control". I have the washing situation sussed. This morning, I packed all my smalls in a laundry bag and headed for deck 5, where conveniently is the guest's laundry and one of the feeding stations. In the laundry the phantom lid lifter had been at work. A distraught guest wondered why her clothes were unwashed.

After breakfast and washing my smalls I took a recuperative snooze to find it was lunch time and I was fortunate to sit with a couple who you hope would be your next-door neighbours. They had been in the exhibition industry but mega air displays and such like. He was the CFO and she the Director of HR, and they only recently retired.

I heard tales of narrow escapes from snakes, cats bringing home poisonous snakes and depositing them on their bed. Also, stories of their dog and why after he died, they couldn't face getting another one.

Like many here they are promiscuous cruisers, having been to Java, Canada, The Rhine, The Rhone and all points north. I put it down to the Aussies feeling disconnected.

I really took to this couple who live miles away from civilisation after living in Sydney for 30 years. And she has horses...so like Walthamstow.

Just looked at today's dinner menu...one of the appetizers is "mustard coated veal sweetbreads". The Entrees are equally interesting.

At 5 pm it was caviar and champagne on deck 5 - this time I sat with a couple who had emigrated from South Africa to Australia years ago. He was an airline pilot, not sure what the missus did before they retired. Then it was dinner with a couple of the crew and other first time Seabourners.

I fell into bed at midnight.

This morning the 1st August we set off in the zodiacs to Montgomery Reef just off the Kimberly coast, at the southwestern end of Camden Sound and surrounds Yawajaba Island Montgomery reef - Google Maps It was quite a haul from the boat to the reef and as we got closer to the reef we noticed that as the tide was going out more and more of the reef was exposed and there were hundreds of mini waterfalls as the water drained of the reef. It not a coral reef but made of the sandstone as is much of this coastline.

We saw a few turtles but their heads were only out of the water for seconds and they were gone. Towards the end of the trip which lasted about 2 hrs the seas were quite rough as we headed back to the Pursuit and we were tossed about and soaked as the Zodiac ploughed through the waves.

This afternoon we're off to Wiggingarra Butt Butt on the mainland to see the Wandjina Art.