Oceania Travel Blogs - Page 7

The NZ is interesting for its natural beauty and pure, clean green natural image, an incredible variety of landscapes without forgetting its rich flora and fauna. this is a wild island people by 4.2 million hab and 43 million sheeps who decline (132 Millons in 1994) due to best profits with other t…

Our plane was to leave Tahiti for Auckland at 7:50am, so I set the alarm for 5am.  I used my travel alarm, my watch alarm, the hotel radio alarm and the wake up call system -- just to be sure that we did not oversleep.  Neither the hotel alarm or the hotel wake up call system worked,…

Anakiwa is at the far end of the Queen Charlotte Sound called the Grove Arm because it branches off from the main channel. There is a large Outward Bound School situated here, where young people come to try new things and to learn just what they are capable of, They learn to row small and large bo…

  I arrived back into Sydney bright and early, and as Robin was not expecting me until late in the afternoon, I called my friend Caroline to see if she was home. Caroline was indeed home, her son was off school with the flu, so I enjoyed the day with Caroline and her two beautiful children. …

Started this morning at 3.3am after an early night – last night it started to rain and the sound of the pounding surf and rattle of rain on the roof of the van helped me to one of the best night’s sleep I have had in a long time. Woke up early (I guess I am still jet-lagged) so I decided to …

Bereits gestern haben Jimmy, der Franzose, und ich beschlossen, heute zum Lone Pine Koala Santuary zu fahren. Kathy, unsere Gastgeberin, hat uns also nach dem Frühstück freundlicherweise dort abgesetzt. In diesem Park gibt es unzählige Koalabären und Känguruhs sowie anderes Getier, darunter Sc…

It is funny the little differences they have here compared to home.  When you get food "to go" they call "take away." Their yeild signs say, "Give way." The cars are the same too. They have the same brands of cars as us, but models that we don't have at home. Also everything that sho…

I can't believe I am finally going! And not just going but really going to see the real NZ ... also staying with some NZ friends Stay posted for pics and blog!!!! :-)

I heart surfing....It is so awesome there are just no words. The rest of my time in Sydney was fantastic!  Sydney is such a beautiful city.  So much to see and do!  I spent my last day climbing the /sydney harbor bridge and is was fantastic.  I'm so glad Monica recommended it. …

Almost finished packing the bags. Looking forward to tommorrow afternoon. We leave early in the morning from Adelaide with a stopover in Melbourne. I need to try to get some sleep! Have just been checking on reports of a Tsunami warning!  Yes they are current warnings and one of the places i…

departed home at Sunshine coast at 4am (shuttle bus to Brissie)............Arrived Broome at 7p.m.  15 hours to get from one side of Australia to the other (actually add on 2 more hours due to time difference...that makes it 17 B..#@!Y hours!)...What is that about?!?  I can tell you....i…

Today we went to Potaroo Palace a small wildlife sanctuary about 10 mins drive from Merimbula. Potaroo palace is a non profit sanctuary where all the money goes back into the keeping and welfare of the animals.Everybody who works here is a volunteer. When we entered the sanctuary the first thi…

These are the better pictures that I took during 2 years of diving in Palau. Palau is consistently ranked as one of the premier diving destinations in the world. As yet, it is the best diving I have ever experienced.

After a simple breakfast, we all headed to Taupo Bungy. Taupo Bungy located on the Waikato River. As if a regular bungy jump isn't good enough, you can do a tandem bungy jump or a water touch bungy - that is where you barely touch the river before bouncing back up. A few of our group (the colleg…

Cervantes is about 270 km north of Perth. It is a nice destination for a weekend when you want to go away from the city. This township was named after a whaling ship that was wrecked along the coast in 1844. Most of the street names are of Spanish origin. The main attraction in the area is Nambun…