The geography is spectacular. The channels between the islands are narrow. At times it seems that you are cruising through the 1000 Islands instead of the Pacific Ocean because the distance between the boat and island is so small. The islands have steep snow covered mountains with the forests reaching right to the ocean shores.
During the morning the boat passed a pod of porpoises. Someone said that they numbered about 150. I don’t know how they came up with that figure, but I know I wasn’t going to do a count. Later in the morning Marg saw our first whale of the trip. She thinks it was an Orca. The in room binoculars are wonderful for nature watching.
In the evening we had one of the planned highlights of the cruise. Marg arranged to celebrate her dad’s 90th year during the first formal dinner. We were all dressed up in our suits and evening dresses. Marg’s dad was in his new suit and was one impressive looking dude. John was in a tux and wore his military medals he earned while in the Australian navy.
We had everyone over for drinks before dinner. Wendy told a joke about her uncle that had us laughing for several minutes. At the dinner the staff sang a traditional Indonesian birthday song, after which John led us on a chorus of “For He’s Jolly Good Fellow.”
The staff then presented Marg's Dad with a cake to commemorate the occasion. They also supplied Joan with a cake for her anniversary. The funny thing was according to the cake it was only her anniversary and not Rocky's.
After dinner we went to the disco, where Marg’s dad danced up a storm. At one point he was dancing with four ladies. One lady approached Marg and told her she had quite the livewire there. When Marg explained that he was her dad, she had a smile from ear to ear, but she didn’t hit on Bob.
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