Sunday, 5 April 2015

Day 9 Wednesday 1 April 2015 Cocos Keeling Islands

The sea has been so calm for the entire trip. Today there was talk on The Naval Campaign of
Gallipoli and was standing room only.  At lunch we met people from Brisbane and from Innisfail so
everyone at the table was from Queensland.  After lunch we went past the Cocos and Keeling 
Islands where the Emden was sunk.  About 600 people live on the islands.  The ship paused at North
KEELING Island where the Emden was beached in 1914 and they held a short memorial service.
While on deck a woman asked an MSC Cruise officer if we were going to get any closer.  We were
closer than I thpught we would get.  He said he didn't know because he was the ship's doctor.
At Dinner in the restaurant we sit with three other couples.  Last night they wre us and another couple
as the others are eating elsewhere.  We are starting to get paranoid.  If the other couple bail then
people will look at us and think, “What’s wrong with them.” We could be that couple!



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