Australia - At Sea

Today is a sea day. We are on our way to Melbourne. At about 5:30 PM we started seeing islands on both sides of the ship. If you look at a map of the bottom of Australia, you will see an indentation in about the middle of the southern coast of the continent. At the top of that indentation is the city of Melbourne. For hours before you get to Melbourne Harbor there are hundreds of islands of various sizes. Some are very far apart and in some spots there are buoy markers and you must be careful to stay in the very narrow channel. The island of Tasmania is due South. This stretch of ocean can be very rough. Before lighted markers were installed there were hundreds of wrecks at night. It just got a little rocky this time and by 9:00 PM we were docked.

Again, nothing very exciting on this sea day. Sooner or later we have to explode. The food here continues to be unbelievable. I used to say it was like going to your favorite restaurant every night. Now I can’t think of a restaurant anywhere, that is as good as what we have been getting here and especially with the unbelievable service. We will never be satisfied when we get home.

Bobbi went to a water color art class today. I don’t know if anyone knows that Bobbi was quite an artist when she was much younger. She did quite a few oils and friends would beg to be able to hang them on their walls. She even went to art school for a short time after high school. In fact I still have a framed modern art painting of hers hanging in Northbrook. It is made of a plaster like material and is raised. After all these years it stills hangs on the wall right in front of my car.

Today she learned to do clouds in water color. She came back with a small piece of paper with the top 1/3 painted with different clouds. I’m sure glad this stuff is free.

That’s pretty much it.

Art Critic Sherm Out.

(Posted on behalf of Sherman Rootberg)