Sea Day 6

We had a calm sailing night and that continues today. Excellent! We are cruising NW on the Timor Sea from Darwin to Komodo. That means that we got the morning sun, but it was raining this morning early and even mid-morning it is still very cloudy. That means with the putting clocks back 1.5 hours last night, we got an early start and late wake-up. A good long night's sleep with calm seas was just the ticket for us both.

Breakfast was late this morning in Terrace. That meant we were late getting to Horizons Lounge to wait for our cabin to be serviced and that meant we were there for needlepoint. She must have found another stash of kits because she had more and ones I hadn't seen before when she said it was the last of them. She even had a few of the large cosmetic cases that she handed out to specific people before placing her bag on a table for the scrum. I got another scissors case in the same pattern of poppies I am doing now. Hopefully that will be enough to keep in my needlework until we get home and I go back to knitting.

Dinner tonight will probably be in Terrace and is Fish al Fresco again. Clay liked that last time. There hasn't been a good TV movie schedule for us the last couple of days. Today the Sirena Lounge afternoon movie is Jackie. We haven't seen it so we'll probably go. We went and it was the biggest attendance yet.

We spent part of the afternoon watching for flying fish as we approached the island of Timor. We sailed by at sunset. Not many lights came on and those seemed to be on boats.

We had dinner at Terrace. Clay said the Fish al Fresco was not as good tonight. We finished in less than 30 minutes and needed to be out of the cabin longer than that. We went to Horizons Lounge and caught the end of the jazz trio's set and I had the last peppermint tea bag. It was Twinings and quite good.

Tomorrow we will reach Komodo Island. Tomorrow will be all about facing fears and pushing personal limits for me. I know more about Komodo Dragons right now than I ever hoped to and I expect I'll know a lot more tomorrow this time. You can't go ashore wearing or carrying anything in the color red. The following 2 days we'll spend the night at Elephant Safari Park Lodge on Bali.