Hello everyone!! OK... finally on to Australia!! :o) I've decided to leave Singapore and head to the Orangutan project in Malaysia tomorrow instead of the day after now so I've only got tonight to try and finish all my blogs for Australia.. I'm determined too otherwise I really never will be up-to-date! Also, because my camera broke in Australia (stupid sand) I only have photos of the first week! Photos from after that I will probably just end up maybe uploading when I get back home and steal Greg's photos! So I apologise in advance for the fact that most of [View Full Entry]

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Heylo!! OK I'm really sorry but I really am going to speed through these next blogs because my neck is killing from sitting at the computer for so long, its bedtime and I need to pack to go to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow as well as do a million other things I have left until the last minute.. ofcourse... some things (or people!) never change! ;o) We had a bit of a scare when we got to our hostel in Melbourne as they claimed they had never received our online reservation and were fully booked, but luckily we had the confirmation so [View Full Entry]

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Hello again!! We arrived in Sydney on the night of the 25th after having flown from Melbourne (just as cheap as the bus so thought we would spare ourselves the 15hours on a bus after we both admitted we had done moooore than enough of the long bus journeys in South America!) just in time for Australia Day on the 26th! On Australia Day we met up with friends from NZ and spent the day mooching around the different events, went to the harbour and say the Harbour Bridge and the Royal Opera House, watched the famous Tall Boats Race (I [View Full Entry]

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Hello!! When we got to Dunedin we went on an evening Speights (beer) brewery tour and beer tasting which was really interesting and fun!! We got to pour our own beers and try all different sorts, before heading out to meet the rest of the Stray group in a restaurant! Needless to say, after the beer tasting, that night turned into quite a big night which was sooo much fun and luckily for the first time on the Stray bus we didn't need to be up early the next morning! Phew! :o) On the way out of Dunedin we stopped off [View Full Entry]

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Hello again!! Stewart Island is just south of the South Island and is New Zealands third largest island. The ferry took just under an hour I think and was a little bit bumpy... we noticed they were handing out ear plugs which we thought was a bit strange as noone was really going to go to sleep but it turns out thats a crazy sea sickness trick... put an ear plug in your dominant ear and it actually worked... I think!! :o) There you go... I'm just a fountain of knowledge nowadays! ;o) We were looking forward to hiring mopeds to [View Full Entry]

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Hola!! After a very early start, we had a beautiful drive to Milford Sound, where we booked a boat trip which travelled deeper into Milford Sound to admire the beautiful scenery. In the afternoon we headed up to Lake Te Anau and then on the Tuatapere, the sausage capital of New Zealand for a dinner of bangers and mash! :o) However, keeping in tune with the fact we never had a dull moment on the Stray bus, we obvioulsy never made it there as our bus broke down AGAIN (a different one this time though!) However, luckily our new driver was [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone!! Sorry I haven't done any blogs for about a month... Australia was amazing but very hectic and it's really hard to find enough internet time when you are not travelling around on your own!! But anyway, I'm really behind so I'm going to speed through the rest of my New Zealand blogs and my Australia blogs as quick as I can otherwise I will be sat at this computer for the next week! :o) On the way to Queenstown we passed the beautiful lakes of Wanaka, where we stopped for a few hours to drop people off and have [View Full Entry]

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Hello!!! I got so carried away with my skydiving photos on the CD that i forgot about the others, including the photos from that afternoon in the Abel Tasman National Park!! So here they are...! :o) xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone!! Im afraid these next blogs are going to be quite short a) because i need to go to the airport soon and really want to get as many blogs done as possible and b) because it feels so long ago now that i cant remember everything we did!! We left Abel Tasman early in the morning and made our way to Barrytown, making a few stops on the way, the only one of which I can remember right now was visiting the seal colony, where we saw lots of cute baby seals on the rocks and the pancake holes [View Full Entry]

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Hola!! We left Barrytown around midday after bone carving and headed to Hokitika, famous for its greenstone, had lunch and wandered around! Later on we stopped at a few lakes and the Bushmans centre where we watched a film about deer hunting and farming which I obviously didnt really like although it was interesting to learn about how deer farming started in NZ and how they used helicopters etc (people used to jump out of the helicopters and on to the backs of the deer before lifting them and transporting them by helicopter)! They also had a huge fat pig there [View Full Entry]

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