While an armada of illegal boats land every day at Christmas Island the mighty Dawn Princess was unable to land it’s cargo of 2,000 eager tourists
The Captain wimped out of allowing the usual conga line of Zimmer frames to stretch their feeble legs; something about the swell; and opting instead for a circumnavigation.
But my thoughts are with the island’s 2,072 residents forlornly watching today’s hoped for cash injection float out to sea.
Today the business people invested in more lettuces ($7.00ea) and cucumbers ($4.50ea) which obviously will now be heavily discounted or sadly binned. The hugely increased order of Mrs Mac’s pies and sausage rolls in the warmer might also suffer the same fate.
Passenger excitement continues unabated, from the luxury of the Horizon Court chow house, as we watch HMAS Armadale towing today’s latest smuggler boat arrival out to sea and to be sunk in a 5km deep watery graveyard.
What a stark comparison! We float around the Indonesian archipelago for 16 days in pampered luxury at around a fifth of the cost of a smuggler’s tour offering.
As the advertising blurb says “escape completely with Princess”
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