Australian Customs officers from Eden have boarded the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines ship the Black Watch in Auckland to enable passengers to clear customs before arriving in Eden on Saturday.
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Eden will be the first Australian port of call for the Black Watch which is on a 55-day cruise from Callao, in Peru, to Singapore.
It is the Black Watch’s maiden voyage to Eden.
The Black Watch will arrive in Eden on Saturday, February 25, at 8am and depart at 5pm, heading to Sydney and then on to Brisbane, Hamilton Island, Townsville, Cairns and Darwin, Komodo Island and Bali in Indonesia, and finally Singapore.
It has visited Easter Island, the French Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Bora Bora, and New Zealand on its way to Eden.
There are 603 passengers and 330 crew on board.
More than 90 per cent of the passengers are from the UK and Ireland, six per cent are from Europe, and one per cent each from the US and Australia.
The average age of the passengers is 71 years.
