Day 60 11th March 2011

Last night we had the opportunity to eat kangaroo and I decided to try it. It was very tender and tasted similar to lamb. Chris and most of the rest of the people on our table declined and had steak. I don’t know why kangaroo appeared on the menu so many days after leaving Australia perhaps someone forgot they had it. Today the food theme continues in that we were invited to attend the Portunus Gold members’ lunch. This is to say thank you for travelling with P and O. It was very good with champagne and lots of wine. We also met the new woman captain who seemed very pleasant.

We are again in mid-ocean with no sign of other ships although there have been a number of birds flying just above the waves. We are probably not that far from land. The ship is moving a lot today even though the sea state is supposed to be slight. This normally means that the waves are hitting us at an angle so that the ship moves more than normal. When I was walking around the deck this afternoon I was being knocked around a good deal. It often feels like your feet are in midair when the ship falls away or pushing up through you when it is rising. Sometimes the deck rises in front of you so you begin climbing a hill and a moment later falls away to accelerate you down the slope.

This evening the ships theatre group, the Headliners are performing in one of the smaller venues, Carmen’s. It is just the singers tonight who have chosen to sing their favourite songs. After that we are going to an Indian themed night for dinner. So, the food goes on today. We decide to miss breakfast to keep an appetite for lunch and dinner.

Tomorrow we start the process of the two 12^th Marches to get back the day we lost in February. This means that we have two Saturdays. It is quite confusing and I am not sure where we will be in respect of time. At the moment we are GMT +13 or 13 hours ahead of UK time.