Sydney stay was cut short due to a mechanical issue after leaving Seattle forcing to divert into Hawaii for 48 hours.

Clyde, not all remarks are meant totally seriously...but thanks for the info.

Pieter. She makes an annual voyage to Antarctica. This year she avoided the heat and bushfire smoke in Sydney.

During the fifties the Soviet Union tried to win some African countries for their ideas. So they assisted them and one of the projects was sending snow ploughs to Equatorial Guinea. Now that Australia is suffering from a heat wave, the US is sending an ice-breaker.