Australia Day and High Tea on the High Seas

It has been almost a dream trip sailing down to Antarctica and the Ross Sea from Macquarie Island.  In fact, apparently it has been one of the fastest trips ever!  The seas have been kind – probably making up for the diabolical first night and day of the trip out of Bluff!!

It is Australia Day – we won’t be getting fireworks this year!  However, we did get green and yellow balloons and streamers in the bar, little Australian flags as bunting, a sleep in, brunch, and High Tea on the High Seas in the afternoon!  Not a bad way to spend Australia Day.

The culmination was a quiz on Aussie slag in the bar/library.  We all had teams and got points or lost points depending on how many Australians were in the team.  My team had just me as the lone Aussie, but we had Scott D who came up with the winning team name – Vegemighties – and we had the other Scott and Alla, who came up with the most amusing alternative for a sheep shagger – one who has a close affinity with wool.  All up, the mighty Vegemighties won the quiz and shared the two bottles of house red very quickly to the sound of the looped CD of Advance Australia Fair!

Which was why we needed the two bottles!