Blogs from Oceania - page 5

Tuesday 23 rd April, BroomeRAC Cable Beach Caravan ParkCost $41.62 per night with membershipRated by us 8/10Mileage 17707 travelled 0I cannot believe how tired we still feel after our trip to the falls.Off to Cable Beach for a coffee and sit and watch the world for a while, no plans today.Could not resist actually getting onto Cable Beach, Tippy and I went for a short wander and I took a few shots.Back to camp to relax and catch up again, thank goodness for the shady trees and the pool.Murray and Jo have booked the trip after seeing our enthusiasm on return I do hope it works out for them. Grahame and Toni are waiting until May when the overnight stays begin, they have taken a job for two moths at the park so ... read more

Thursday 25 th April, BroomeRAC Cable Beach Caravan ParkCost $41.62 per night with membershipRated by us 8/10Mileage 17707 travelled 0After our relaxing few days we were up at 4.30am to attend the Anzac Day dawn service here in Broome. The war memorial is in the park which we looked over from our hotel when we first came to Broome for a week in 2012, the first holiday Graeme and I had together. The service was great and it was so good to see families involved. The local primary schools all supplied half a dozen kids and they sang the Australian National Anthem, it was touching to hear. The local Broome Band a new innovation in town also played the music, I noticed no one was brave enough to take on the Lay Post ... read more

Saturday 27 th April, KununurraG’Day Lake KununurraCost $45.00 per night with membershipRated by us 6/10Mileage 18949 travelled 465kmsQuiet night with a good rest after the push of 400+kms yesterday. Everyone was up and packed and off early, it is juts 24hour rest stop, so we expected it would be the case.Driving through Halls Creek again it was a sad state of affairs we didn't stop but the place looked very run down.This would have to be the most amazing scenery we have see so far I took 167 photos as the road wound around into the hills and gorges of The Kimberley, it is a magic part of the country we are so blessed to be able to see all of this. I again took my turn at driving, I find the road ... read more

We seem to have spent a lot of time traversing the globe over the past few years, and we’ve often been quizzed on our impressions of the empty arid centre of our wide brown homeland. And our response? Um, ahh … well we’ve never actually been there, which has always felt just a tad embarrassing. So we’ve decided it’s time to put that little wrong right - a three week and six thousand odd kilometre road trip up into our Red Centre. That feels like it’s going to be an awful lot of driving, but if that’s what it takes …. And today’s first step to get us in the mood, well that would be a lazy five hundred and fifty kilometres from Melbourne up to Mildura in the far north west of Victoria on the ... read more

Hallo zusammen endlich endlich ist es mal wieder soweit und ich habe mich zusammen gerissen und mich mal wieder hin gessetzt, um Euch ein kleines Update zu geben. Eigentlich wäre ich ja schon wieder in Deutschland, denn am 17. April 2024 ist mein Visa ausgelaufen und mein Flug von Auckland nach Frankfurt ist an diesen Tag gestartet - allerdings ohne mich. Und das kam so: John kam auf die grandiose Idee einfach mal die Immigration zu fragen, ob ich nicht verlängern kann und natürlich ist das so eine Sache, wenn ein Neuseeländer sagt: „Ach probier das doch einfach mal!“, aber auf der anderen Seite keinerlei Ahnung hat wie das so mit Visas, Einwanderung und eben überhaupt in dem Zusammenhang mit Regierungsinstitutionen funktioniert. Aber John ist einfach jemand der einfach mal probiert und schaut was passiert… Ich ... read more