Hello FandW, and welcome to lct! I think we may have another aussie aboard, Lee, and she may be on that MUSH cruise that has it's own thread. I have never been on the panama canal, but am on PARTY and look forward to it. If you are on SPIN, Margo and her husband are aboard and I hope she will check in!

The only time I have met Aussies on a cruise was on the Silversea Shadow, and they were my favorite fellow guests! Very funloving! Then I went on on a leg of the World Cruise on the Voager in January, and we had 3 days in Sidney because of a storm. I loved that city! Two of my nieces went there to live and travel (one studied in Perth) and loved it! They did not want to come home !