Day 27 - 12 June - MV Trinity Cairns

After lunch there was an emergency drill. We had to go to the muster deck and put on life jackets. Couldn't help but smirk that the very large, loud, know-it-all had trouble because his shape meant the life jacket was in his face. He is annoying, sharing his opinion with everyone. Unfortunately everyone is too polite to tell him to piss off. I have noticed other passengers tend cluster on tables at mealtimes possibly as a mechanism to avoid getting caught by him. Must be hell on a tour bus!

Apart from Mark from Yorkshire, Tony and I are the youngest passengers. All the others are retired. Some are actually doing this trip both ways without a break. The trip is good and I am glad we did it, but more than 2 days and you would go loopy.








 Estimated departure and arrival times are posted up so we know when we will be docking.  Roll on 16:00.



 Got to Cairns a bit after 4:00 pm.  Good to see it from the water.  A bit late because some yachts had gone into the shipping lane and there was not enough wind for them to move out quickly and we had to slow right down.
















This boat apparently belongs to a friend of Bill Gates'.  A monster craft with its own helipad and helicopter.  It is rented out for research expeditions.  Anyone want to do some research with me?


Eventually docked and cycled off to the Cairns YHA for the night.


Bought some fish and made a salad...FANTASTIC after the cafeteria food on the boat.