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Last Blog, We arrived in San Francisico on Wednesday the 9th in the evening after a great flight from Fiji, then a connecting flight from L.A. The first few days were spent taking in the city getting rid of jet lag and getting some good American tucker in side of us! This place is a far cry from our Fiji experience, but the city is a nice place with plenty to do, we were both pleasanly surprised. Friday the 11th was my (25th) birthday, so we found plenty of shops to do some present shopping in. The weather by now has got freezing and still is. Or feels freezing compared to what we have been used to. We planned a fun day for my birthday cycling over the golden gate bridge, this was abandoned because ... read more

Another week has passed and time for another blog!! Its going so fast now. Only three weeks left!! AH, then what are we going to do? We took the ferry from Picton to Wellington in the North Island to begin our trip back to Auckland. From Wellington we headed north to get a few hours of driving done before our stop at Levin. Up early the next day we had a lot of driving to do to get to New Plymouth, On the way we had a couple of very important stops...... Firstly the Rugby Museaum in Parmerston North, we were expecting good things here being the national game and all that, It was intresting!! Not quite what what we expected, a couple of small smelly rooms with tons of very old rugby memrobilia. We ... read more

Kia Ora, Welcome to the south Island Edition!! The Journey from Wellington took us across the 'Cook Straight' to Picton. Here we got our first glimpse of the South Island an amzaing sight of mountains and remote countryside. This was the first of an amazing 9 days in the South Island. From the ferry we drove to Nelson to our wicked accomodation near the beach on the north of the Island. We had lots of activities to choose from here one one of which was Skydiving!!! There was only one brave volunteer for this activity, yes the girl rules. (Ok maybe I am just the stupid one.) I wanted to do it, but knew I would be really nervous. It was a perfect day- clear blue sky- the best conditions for a bit of jumping ... read more

Hi All, We arrived in Melbourne a few days ago to be greeted with lots of art sculptures. It is certainly a cultural city, its a lot different from what we have seen already. Bizarre that we are in the same country.... City exploring was great, we spent the afternoon at the Melbourne Museum, this I am sure was mostly for kids, Simon and I felt right at home, and amused ourselves for hours. We booked our Neighbours night with a lady who looked familar, we couldn't quite put our finger on it until she said "face...bothered" Ah, Catherine Tate herself. We were quite scared by her as you can imagine... The Neighbours Trivia night was fantastic. Lots of screaming fans ready to meet Harold Bishop (Jelly Belly), Toady, and Pepper (Don't know if you guys ... read more

Hi all, Well we woke on Thursday morning, feeling a bit down, until we looked out the window to find this yellow blob radiating a lot of light and heat! Yippee. We wasted no time at all to get down to the Lagoon for our first swim in Airlie Beach. The following day (again sunny) we were to meet our boat Anaconda 3, for a three day tour around the Whitsundays. We left the dock with champagne in hand, excited about the prospect of the next few days! We saw some great spots, glorous Whitehaven Beach (It was pretty quiet and secluded which made it all the better) We saw luncheon bay where we did our first dive on the Whitsunday stretch. The snorkelling here was great, the fish all within touching distance. The highlight of ... read more