early start today as we were picked up at 7.10 am to take us to cairns port. we arrives their and booked in, a very busy place and we booked the trip where we start off at green island and lay on the beach and do a bit of swimming and swim out to the Read More »
I landed in Sydney after a 9 hour flight from Hong Kong and so that marked the end of my time in Asia and the start of Australasia (or Oceania if you want to call it that). Even as I checked in to my hostel at 8am, I could tell it was going to be Read More »
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I hope you are all good, I cant believe that it is December already! it seems that 2009 is just zooming by and I cant quite believe that we are heading into Christmas. Believe me, its really weird having our first warm Christmas, I keep seeing the sky at night get lighter and lighter Read More »
Friday we started our 3-day tour of Kangaroo Island. It’s a small island off the mainland in South Australia. We drove a couple of hours from Adelaide to the ferry, which is the only way to get to the island. Supposedly it’s one of the most expensive ferries in the world (in terms of fares), Read More »
Saturday the 21st of September was the official opening of the Whangamata Marina on the Coromandel Peninsular. We travelled down from Auckland in the morning to meet Gavin and Pat Smith for lunch in Whangamata. We also met up with the rest of the Total Marine Team as they were down for the opening as Read More »
We’re doing well – this is our second blog in two days.
It’s all very well dashing about NZ doing amazing things, but at some point one has to organise domestic stuff and, as Harry says, “domestic stuff is too hard for men”. The motel at Wanaka was blessed with a laundry and, as luck Read More »
Kadaku National Park like the Yellowstone features uniqueness with excessive beatuty that only fills when you start opening your doors for it. More likely to be pictured as an extension of the wild of Arnhem Land in the east(which is also one of the a must discover in Australia because of its history, culture and Read More »
Holiday to Townsville
(Self proclaimed capital of Tropical North Queensland)
We had some air miles to use up before November courtesy of my old employer BA, so we had a look on the internet for places to go that were with in reach of the air miles I had accrued. After about a week we Read More »
Sorry about yesterdays mardy post about Cairns- I’d just gotten horribly scummy simply walking to the nearest shop to get a bite to eat and the experience put me in a pretty bad frame of mind.
Today I decided to use the hostels relative isolation to my advantage and popped over to the Flecker Botanical Read More »
Yesterday I decided to check out the Adelaide Gaol. It was built on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1841 and as Adelaide is one of the only colonial towns not be settled by convicts, local people scoffed at the idea of needing a prison. They were soon proved to be less that law abiding citizens, Read More »
