Time to talk about our Captain, pictured in post #174 with his cruise companion. This is my first 'proper' cruise so I have nothing really to benchmark the Captain on - but plenty here have, and the comments aren't pretty!! We are a vessel of about 160 pax.
The only time we've seen the captain was 1) Welcome aboard greeting, in Darwin 2) At his 2 Galas, where he gave speeches of thanks and intro-ed his officers. 3) At the first gala dinner, where he sat with (I'm guessing) some 'status' pax and received high-profile attention (as photographed a fair few posts above). He has never been seen by me, or others who have commented on it, 'mixing' with the passengers, walking around, greeting etc
Oh, and 4) Every day, usually in his own twin-engine Zodiac, having private excursions with his travelling companion.
Yesterday, at Horizontal Falls, there were 7 pax zodiacs in a queue waiting to go close (no transits through the falls being offered), and as we watched (and waited), the captain zoomed right through! At Ashmore Reef, he and friend stood in the water, verboten to the rest of us. Now, the latter you may regard as trivial, but showed amazing arrogance, in full view of the passengers in their zodiacs.
Never been an announcement from the bridge about whales being seen (there have been plenty) etc.
Experienced cruisers - what do you think?