Category: The Downunder Cruisers
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Happy Financial New Year
June 29 2025 As we wind down the old financial year, we look forward to the new financial year. What will be different and how will we benefit from starting a fresh? Will your cruising habits change? will you be vacationing more or less? Will cruising take a back seat and will the cruise lines…
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Getting Excited for a cruise
June 1 2025 As the time by, the “CRUISE OF THE CENTURY” creeps up at an alarming pace. We are 180 days away at the time of writing this blog. What does the cruise hold for us? Well, it will be an opportunity for the far flung members of the family to get together. It…
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Dreams in Motion
What another successful weekend The Dreams in Motion session held the weekend of the 25th through to the 27th of April 2025 was our best fundraiser yet. We raised in excess of $4600 USD surpassing our January fundraiser. This is so exciting because we can now place another recipient on a cruise ship. We are…
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The END of an era
March 23 2025 The end of an era has arrived. P&O Australia has now closed its doors. P&O Australia was the only cruise line that serviced our Australian waters year round. The cruise line was established 90 years ago as a subsidiary of P&O U.K. and operated passenger sailings from the U.K. to Australia. Over…
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Have you heard that we booked a cruise?
23 February 2025 We Booked a Cruise. On the 29th December 2026, Ilana and I and a whole host of other people are going on the Carnival Luminosa out of the Brisbane cruise terminal. The cruise will depart from Brisbane and head up to Airlie Beach, then head off to Cairns, where we will then…
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HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY
January 26 2025 G’day folks, welcome to Government House in Melbourne. Ilana and I were helping my Mother (Edith) at an event her Rotary club were working at for Australia Day. We were involved in assisting at a sausage sizzle. People everywhere come to look at where the King’s representative lives and also enjoy some…