Aboard Orion-Week 3

Saturday March 14, 2026 Day at sea. Breakfast, art class.

Exotic tropical fruits at breakfast,
Coconuts, jackfruit, bananas, rambutans, pineapples, dragon fruit, soursops, sugar apples, snakeskin fruit.

Walked 4 miles outside on deck 2, cards, sunset, dinner.

Musical show by Australian artist, Patrick Roberts, Grammy nominated violinist fresh from performing live with STING in France. Experience breathtaking Performing from his No.1 Universal Music album Fragile, featuring STING and Tommy Emmanuel.

Sunday, March 15, 2026 Day at sea, breakfast, walk 3 miles outside on deck 2, cards, sunset, dinner at Manfredi’s Italian restaurant on board. We had a private room for our group.

Monday, March 16, 2026 Day at sea, breakfast, art class, laundry, cards, port talk, Explorer Lounge to watch cruise director Aoibhin (A-veen) sing Irish songs, with guitar accompaniment by John Solo aka Johnny O’Brien, sunset, dinner.

A second performance by Australian violinist Patrick Roberts. Star gazing, Oh my the stars, The Southern Cross!

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 🍀Fremantle, Western Australia. By 10:30am we were docked. All persons on the ship were required a face to face with customs and immigration as we were just in Indonesia.

Fremantle is located at the mouth of the Swan River, recognised for its well-preserved Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes and convict-era architecture. The harbour serves as the port of Perth.

Our excursion today was a guided walking tour around Fremantle concluding at the Western Australia Seaport Museum.

Historic Fremantle Prison a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Perth. Dan and I along with Tammy and Steve took the train from Fremantle into Perth for the day. The cost was $7 AUD each for a round trip. We rode the hop on hop off bus the full route, hopped off for lunch, then took the CAT bus to the Perth Mint. Perth like Sydney have several tree lines street within their Central Business Districts.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, Bussleton. In the morning we toured the Busselton Jetty. The Jetty is 1.841 kilometers (1.14 miles) over the protected waters of Geographe Bay and is the longest wooden-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere.

Along side the Jetty is safe swimming area that includes a U-shaped dock and shark nets.

You can walk or take a ride on the solar-powered Jetty Train over the Indian Ocean to the Underwater Observatory, one of only six in the world. Standing 13m (42ft) tall and 8.5m (27.8ft) wide sits on ocean floor and has 11 viewing windows to see the man made reef.