Entering the Suez Canal

Cooking in Color in Sir Lanka

These are pictures from the cooking class I took in Sir Lanka. We cooked at the house of the lady in the photo. We made several kinds of curry. The two in the photos are beet curry and cabbage curry. There was a vegetable curry with mostly eggplant and a chicken curry. All had tons of spices in them and went great with the rice we also cooked. For dessert we had curd (Buffalo Curd) with honey. It was very good. Everything but the curd I can do when I get home. My spices may be different so the curry will be slightly different. Sir Lanka curry is one of the best I have eaten.

We cooked in the big clay pots you see in the photos. She had gas burners under them. The picture with the stones shows the appetizer we had before the meal.

Bali

We were greater with some really beautiful dances when we arrived in Bali. Many of our crew are from Bali and they got to spend time with their families. A nice day all around.

Townsville Australia

We got caught on the edge of a storm leaving Sydney and could not get into Mooloolaba. Instead we docked at Townsville and had a very nice day. They had the biggest aquarium with only natural living coral based on the Great Barrier Reef. While it was not really big it was very nice and everything in each exhibit was natural and living. We cruised the Great Barrier Reef after leaving and while we did not see much we did see a few atolls like the one in the photo.

Cairns Australia

It was very hot in both Cairns and Darwin and I did not last long in either. I did get a photo of the alligator and his friend. I wanted to go to the small wildlife park at the top of the casino but ran out of energy before I made it there..

Vietman

I watch this combination of boat for our two days in Vietnam. It flat one looked like a drilling platform. The lowered something through the center and pulled it up. The other one stayed right with them. They had a small round wicker boat that they used to come and go from the shore. You can see it at the back of the boat.

Re: Bubbles

Catcat would have a blast with that.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Jo Jones <jonesjar@gmail.com> wrote:

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This is the bubble man. He was performing for all of us.

Bubbles

Flowers

Beautiful flowers in Picton. We got a small group when we left the ship.

Avatoru, Rangiroa

View from ship and where we sailed in

Moorea

Beautiful to look at, hot to visit

International Date Line

I went to bed last night on Wednesday and woke up today on Friday.  We crossed the International Date Line last night.  Changing the day is much easier than gaining an hours when we cross a time zone.

We are at sea now for four days.  Our last shore day was in the Cook Islands.  We could not get tenders into the planned bay so we went around the island to another break in the coral reef and went on shore there.  Kathy (a new friend from my dinner table_ and I went in to swin and snorkel for a hour or a hour and a half.  That plan did not workl

The entrance to the lagoon was very narrow and the tenders had to be very careful coming in.  The tender after ours did not make it.  As we were sitting on the beach watching and getting read to go in the water we saw the tender miss the passage and get stuck on the reef.  It had a full load of passengers who were stuck with the tender.  It took many tries and about four hours to get it off the reef and towed back to the ship.

No one could leave the island or the ship while this was going on.  Fortunately we had a great shady spot on the beach to sit and watch the efforts to rescue the tender and the passengers.

It was good that we had that as the swimming and snorkeling were not good at all.

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Catch up

I went to bed last night on Wednesday and woke up today on Friday.  We crossed the International Date Line last night.  Changing the day is much easier than gaining an hours when we cross a time zone.

We are at sea now for four days.  Our last shore day was in the Cook Islands.  We could not get tenders into the planned bay so we went around the island to another break in the coral reef and went on shore there.  Kathy (a new friend from my dinner table_ and I went in to swin and snorkel for a hour or a hour and a half.  That plan did not workl

The entrance to the lagoon was very narrow and the tenders had to be very careful coming in.  The tender after ours did not make it.  As we were sitting on the beach watching and getting read to go in the water we saw the tender miss the passage and get stuck on the reef.  It had a full load of passengers who were stuck with the tender.  It took many tries and about four hours to get it off the reef and towed back to the ship.

No one could leave the island or the ship while this was going on.  Fortunately we had a great shady spot on the beach to sit and watch the efforts to rescue the tender and the passengers.

It was good that we had that as the swimming and snorkeling were not good at all.

Jo Jones

http://mixedbookbag.blogspot.com

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