I just took the shuttle into the city and walked around exploring the area on either side of the river. It was a lovely day with sunshine and not hot temps. I put on a good number of steps on my journey. That whole area has extremely wide pedestrian walks (along with bicycle riders. Unlike at home, the bicyclists are not racing past you). Along these walks are so, so many restaurants with very few shops. It’s a Sunday (I don’t know if that’s the reason) but there were huge number of pedestrians.

On the river I see many racing skulls with their instructor following behind, a helipad and black swans.

These are just miscellaneous pictures taken at sea level.

And then I went up the Skywalk….what a view!

And the return to port.

As we are sitting down to dinner leaving Port Phillip, the ship cranks hard and I, along with a good number of others, are wondering what the captain is trying avoid hitting (as another ship was not paying attention on a previous trip to Asia). We could not see another ship only churning wake. When look at the map of the are, we understand the tight turn the captain needed to make.

Dec 8/25-Burnie, Tasmania

Another terribly rocky night on the seas last night and not any better when we got to Burnie. Even with pier facilities & 2 tugs pushing, it was impossible to dock and so…. Back out to sea we go. Disappoint that another port was missed.