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Topic: LIVE FROM ON BOARD AURORA'S MAIDEN WORLD CRUISE
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Terri Lee
First Class Passenger Posts: 224
From:Burlington Ontario Canada
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-28-2001 10:57 PM
  
Mary,Mary,Mary.....I am SO PLEASED you managed to get to Manly Beach in Sydney.Isn't it just a lovely,lovely place to be? That was one of my own special memories of my World Cruise on the ROTTERDAM in 1999.Wonderful to hear from you again  Terri
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bmajor
First Class Passenger Posts: 38
From:Auckland New Zealand
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-01-2001 01:14 AM
Mary's day at the Great Barrier Reef sounds like fun...it is, after all, one of the wonders of the world!!!......Any ship of Aurora's size has an extremely limited pre'determined area in which to anchor, overseen and monitored by the Australian environmental authorities officers who would have been aboard.....all to do with the preservation of the coral formations. The experience on the big Cats sounds exactly like ours last year... Before leaving the reef pontoon lunch was served below deck.
Within a short time of leaving it was no bed of roses down there as most passengers involuntarily handed their lunch back!!..
It was just like being in a rotary washing machine!!..I think that I was possibly the only one to buy a drink from the bar..the stewards were otherwise too busy making ice cold packs and advising people to hold them against their foreheads...
Hamilton Island more than compensated for the inconvenience of getting there...it was a great place to spend a really fun afternoon
especially from the back of a mini moke!!...
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Southampton
First Class Passenger Posts: 18
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Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 03-02-2001 05:45 AM
Mary, really enjoying your reports, hope the guys in the"unnofficial p&o club " realise where all your posts are going....pleased to say Auroras web cam is back on after several days....best...mark.IP: Logged |
Norma
First Class Passenger Posts: 33
From:Scotland UK
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-03-2001 10:36 AM
Hi SouthhamptonIt would be interesting if you would post a link to the site of the Auroras' Webcam. Thx Norma IP: Logged |
sympatico
First Class Passenger Posts: 1324
From:Ontario Canada
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-03-2001 12:29 PM
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Originally posted by Norma:
Hi SouthhamptonIt would be interesting if you would post a link to the site of the Auroras' Webcam. Thx Norma
Norma - just slid your mouse to the left of this page and you will see a group of titles - Go to the list under "Industry" and click on "Ship Cams" - voila - there, second from the top of the list is the Aurora - just lick it on.
Right now it is blacked out - either it isn't working or it is night time wherever they are. [This message has been edited by sympatico (edited 03-03-2001).] IP: Logged |
Norma
First Class Passenger Posts: 33
From:Scotland UK
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-08-2001 04:24 PM
Opps! Thx Sympatico after I posted this I found the link but haven't seen anything yet
Thx for letting me know anyway.Luv Norma IP: Logged |
billee
First Class Passenger Posts: 69
From:Baltimore, MD USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 03-09-2001 11:55 AM
What's a Golliewog?IP: Logged |
sympatico
First Class Passenger Posts: 1324
From:Ontario Canada
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-09-2001 01:30 PM
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Originally posted by billee:
What's a Golliewog?
Billee - go back to the beginning of this post and read through and you will see there is a web site listed about the Gollies. IP: Logged |
Green
First Class Passenger Posts: 824
From:Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-09-2001 09:38 PM
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Originally posted by Scottylass:
Hello Folks
PPS: Oh we even seen the Gollies after they embarked the ship, went to Manly Beach on the Sunday and lo and behold there was mummy and daddy golliwog walking down the beach.
Really loved that post - can just see the Golliwog Family walking that Beach. Brings to mind an elderly, bachelor and somewhat staid Economics Professor, knowing I had been there, phoned one evening to ask if I knew what 'going pushy, pushy' on Manly Beach meant. Turned out that a friend had put him in touch with a female relative. She replied that he might enjoy such a trip and would be happy to arrange it. OZ people are always happy to welcome visitors and show them around. Greatly tempted to plead ignorance, I did enlighten him. He went to Manly Beach but declined the 'pushy, pushy'. IP: Logged |
Norma
First Class Passenger Posts: 33
From:Scotland UK
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-10-2001 11:41 AM
Thought you all might like to read this article from our local paperCRUISE SHIP TO RESCUE A BRITISH cruise liner yesterday went to the rescue of a freighter sinking off the Chinese coast. P & O's 76,000-ton AURORA, with 1800 passengers and 850 crew on board was bound for Hong Kong.
Power boats plucked sailors from the sea but three Russian crewmen on the Cambodian-registered ship drowned before help arrived.
One passenger said: "It was all very dramatic".
Luv Norma  )
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Norma
First Class Passenger Posts: 33
From:Scotland UK
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-10-2001 11:44 AM
Re: Wonderful GolliesDid I tell you that my mother-in-law worked in a Gollie factory in the 70/80's? The Gollies were (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) badges and labels on Robertson's Jam Jars etc, back then but don't know what happened after their factory closed down. By then the Gollies were banned. Luv Norma ) IP: Logged |
sympatico
First Class Passenger Posts: 1324
From:Ontario Canada
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-10-2001 08:24 PM
GREEN- what does "pushy,pushy" mean? Not familiar with this phrase.
When you are feeling better, hope you will tell us all about your cruise to Hawaii.IP: Logged |
Scottylass
First Class Passenger Posts: 402
From:Stirlingshire, Scotland
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-10-2001 08:42 PM
Hello AllYes Aurora did divert to a distress call off the coast of Taiwan. It was the day before we arrived in Hong Kong, and it was a very sad scene, not something I ever want to witness again. It was reported there were 19 souls in the water, by the time we got there the ship had sunk, three of our young seamen went out in the fast rescue craft, who all I can say were heroes considering the conditions at the time, they rescued 3 people, but sadly one soul was dead all rescuitation was tried for some time. Unfortunately the debris and the ships cargo got caught up in our Starboard propellor and has damaged 3 of the 5 blades, and we are now on one prop only, it is to be fixed under water in Singapore, but the vibration of running on one engine in the aft section of the ship can be felt. It was really a very sombre scene, but trying to get the rescue craft and the survivors back on board was a very hard job, the young men were baling out all the time as the sea was coming in the craft, it was windy and high seas, they really did so very well. Bi for now
Mary
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Green
First Class Passenger Posts: 824
From:Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 03-11-2001 12:46 PM
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Originally posted by sympatico:
GREEN- what does "pushy,pushy" mean? Not familiar with this phrase.
When you are feeling better, hope you will tell us all about your cruise to Hawaii.
'Pushy, pushy' - a bicycle ride! The gentleman is, to say the least, very portly (overweight) - doubt that he'd been on a bike since he was 10 years old! Now that I think I may live, I'll post re the Hawaii cruise - I'm sure I caught this bug on our homeward flight from Denver. A guy, at least 6ft and weighing about 350lbs., sat in front of me and insisted on reclining his chair as far back as possible, even when our meal was served. I asked him to please give me a little space at least until we had eaten - no way - he rose like an angry bull, coughing and spluttering to advise me (and many others) that he had a bad cold and was unable to breathe in the confined space. It was a full plane and there was nothing to be done. My kleenex 'protection' obviously did nothing to prevent the spread of his germs - I wonder how many others were affected. He had more than a bad cold - a raging case of the 'flu was what I ended up with- a temperature of 104 on Thursday. Today I still ache - my ribs feel like I've been run over and muscles I never knew I had are groaning. I'm coughing and spluttering like the idiot. Uncharitable,  I know but I hope he's suffering!!! This is not the way to feel after a wonderful cruise.
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