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Scenic Eclipse II set for maiden voyage to Australia in 2024

Scenic Eclipse II, which was forced to cancel its 2021 maiden season in Australia due to COVID-19 restrictions, will cruise around Queensland and the Northern Territory in 2024.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

June 3, 2022

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Highlight of the just released ‘Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific’ brochure is the 29-day ‘Grand Australian Sojourn’ which departs April 22, 2024, from Newcastle, New South Wales, where Glen Moroney founded the company in 1986.

The 228-passenger boutique ship will sail along the New South Wales and Queensland coastlines to the Northern Territory, visiting the Hunter River, Montgomery Reef, Talbot Bay and Lacepede Island before arriving in Broome and sailing around the Kimberley.

Chairman’s Voyage

Moroney will host the Chairman’s Voyage leaving Newcastle on April 22, along with passengers on the ‘Grand Australian Sojourn.’

Highlights will be visits to K’Gari (Fraser Island), Gladstone, Percy Isles National Park, Airlie Beach, Magnetic Island and Willis Island.

A barbecue on the dazzling white sands of Whitehaven Beach is a Scenic Enrich experience.

Tahiti to Fiji

A 13-day ‘Reefs & Volcanic Isles: Tahiti to Fiji' voyage from Papeete on March 31, 2024, calls at Bora Bora, Palmerston Island, Alofi, Vava’u, Fulanga Island, Vanua Balavu and Ovalau en route to Lautoka.

‘Bringing Scenic Eclipse II home to Australia and the Pacific Islands waters will be a major event  for our guests, travel trade partners and the Scenic team,’ Anthony Laver, GM sales & marketing, said.

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About the Author

Helen Hutcheon

Australasia correspondent

Helen Hutcheon did her cadetship on a shipping magazine and worked in P&O’s Sydney office for seven years as a public relations journalist.

For 19 years she was deputy editor of Travel Week, which was Australia’s leading trade newspaper that covered major local and international industry events.

In 2008 the late legendary Rama Rebbapragada presented her with an award from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cruising industry.’

In 2010 she won the Neil Frazer Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the cruise industry,’ elevating her to CLIA Australasia’s hall of fame.

She has been the Australasia correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review since 1997 and for Seatrade Insider (now Seatrade Cruise News) since its launch in 2000.

 

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