Adelaide - Queen's Birthday Long weekend + Adelaide Cabaret Festival

A quick trip to Adelaide for the long weekend and a chance to catch up with friends and enjoy some cabaret shows. Our love of food and wine has also been tantalised with some great finds. 

Our view from our hotel Crowne Plaza Adelaide

Entry to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival

South Pacific cruise days 9 and 10 - sea days

We're heading home after a fun and relaxing cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia and enjoyed our last two remaining days by relaxing and discovering the specialty restaurants onboard. 

We did a tour of the ship 'All access tour' and got to see some very interesting parts of the wonderful 'Voyager of the Seas'; we visited the bridge, the three ship galleys, laundry room, ice skating rink studio B, waste and recycling centre, crew dining and rest areas and the I95 which runs the length of the ship. We also managed to bump into the captain and got a photo. 

Jeff and I with the Captain 

The ships bridge

Ice skating rink -Studio B (back stage)

South Pacific cruise - Isle of Pines, New Caledonia day 7

Today we arrived in the tranquil waters surrounding Isle of Pines and we had a tour booked that shows off some of the islands character and past. 

The crystal clear water on Isle of Pines

Wooden carvings

Our ship parked near Isle of Pines

South Pacific cruise - Mystery Island day 6

We arrived into Mystery Island on day 6 of our cruise and we were really looking forward to spending the day on the island swimming and snorkelling. This is our second visit to the island. 

Voyager of the Seas anchored off of Mystery Island, Vanuatu

The crystal clear water that surrounds Mystery Island 

Us enjoying our time on Mystery Island

South Pacific cruise - Port Vila day 5

We arrived into Port Vila on Saturday 13/02/2016 at 08:00 and had most of the day at this port until 16:30 with departure at 17:00. We decided to stay onboard for the day as we have visited Port Vila on our last cruise. We spent the day relaxing on the ship which we almost had to ourselves. 

Port Vila harbour

Enjoying a drink as we depart Port Vila

South Pacific cruise day 4 - sea day

On our fourth day we finally round the tip of New Caledonia by passing the Isle of Pines before heading north towards Port Vila, Vanuatu. 

Isle of Pines

Flow Rider in action

Our galley tour and Indian banquet lunch with champagne

South Pacific cruise days 2 and 3 - sea days

We had 3 sea days after leaving Sydney before we reach our first port of Port Vila, Vanuatu. The first sea day was rough and a number of passengers were feeling it. There were sick bags in all of the stair cases just in case. 

The bow of the ship with nothing but the Tasman sea all around us. 

Our favourite view of the ships wake as we gradually got to 17 knots

Day 2 - formal night all dressed up and ready for the evening

South Pacific cruise onboard Voyager of the seas

We depart on our 10 night South Pacific cruise to Vanuatu and New Caledonia onboard Royal Caribean 'Voyager of the Seas'. 

Our ship parked at the Overseas Passenger Terminal Sydney

The Royal Promenade

Looking down the port side of our ship

Gold Coast - weekend musical getaway

We made a very quick trip to the Gold Coast to see the musical 'Bring it on' at the Gold Coast Arts Centre. We also caught up with my aunties Pat and Helen and Wally and Dennis for dinner. A quick but thoroughly enjoyable weekend. 

The view from our hotel room. 

Surfers Paradise beach

Surfers Paradise sunrise.