SA0314 - day 2 - Bunbury

SA0314 - day 2 - Bunbury
The dining room is normally open for breakfast at 7:30 on sea days and 7:00 am when we are in port; the WJ is usually 1/2 an hour earlier. Neither was especailly good for a 7:30 tour when we were asked to meet in the theater at 7:15. There's certainly room for improvement here.
Furthermore, we were in port all day. There was a 7 hour tour scheduled to leave an hour after mine. The other morning tour also had an afternoon departure as a second choice, so why did my tour have to be so early?
Despite several maiden calls to ports on the first leg, we were never officially welcomed by the locals - at least the passengers were not. There were, of course, the usual behind-the-scenes Plaque and Key ceremonies, as well as inspection tours by local travel industry personnel.
Bunbury was the first port that had any semblance of a welcome for the passengers, in the form of a small band that played familiar songs on the pier and they did rather well.
We took the Bunbury and Busselton tour which was pretty much as described. At one point we had the option of getting off the bus near the Busselton tourist office and walking down the main street to the jetty where the bus would be waiting. The main street looked like any beach-side tourist area, so we opted to stay on the bus and stroll around the jetty. Some people took advantage of being able to wade in the Indian Ocean for the first time in their lives.