First of all I must explain why I have not added a blog for a few days. After the day in Cairns and taking an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef, we were told that Cyclone Trevor had formed. It was being tracked and should hit the York Peninsula just south of our next scheduled port of Thursday Island. We would have been in trouble. But the Captain changed our course and skipped stopping in this area. The storm did hit just as predicted on Tuesday March 19. It had 150 km/hour winds as it hit the land. Much damage. Glad we left the area ahead of this. But that meant we were not close to shore and had very spotty web access. So I couldn’t get a blog completed.
We had a good time at the reef. Many of the photos were only so so. But we did see blue star fish. One of the issues in the water was the jelly fish. It was their mating season and they sting people if they find uncovered skin. We saw hundreds of the jelly fish. They don’t show up clearly in photos. It just looks like I took an out of focus picture.
On the way back to the port the crew of the catamaran were somewhat bored (as were we!). So this one young lady in the photo took a barf bag and made an origami swan. it was really cute. Since I took a photo and Kathy talked to her, we were given the swan.
I am still struggling with staying on the web. That makes loading photos a problem. So I will tell the rest of the origami story. We took the swan to dinner at the café. The servers started joining in. First we got a Philippine airplane, then a lotus blossom from another, a boat, a gang plank for the boat, a big Russian airplane, and because it was St. Patrick’s Day, we got a leprechauns boot. The next day we got another boat, a box and the most special frog that actually jumps.
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