I'm happy to report that I was able to update and "publish" our blog through our visit yesterday to Thursday Island, and it's not the middle of the night. It's only 10 PM our time. It was very strange when we set our clocks back 1/2 hour last night. I didn't know that was ever done.

We are now heading for Darwin, where we are now supposed to arrive at 11AM because of the delay in leaving Thursday Island, while a wire on one of the lifeboats was repaired. We had a very good special-event dinner (with special wines) tonight for the Gold, Plat., and Titanium cruisers, which I will report on in some detail in the blog when I next update it after our day in Darwin. It's time to say "bonne nuit."

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Eugene