sazandjas

Bola! (Hello in Fijian) Wow, well we've had a truely amazing time since arriving in beautiful unspoilt Fiji 2 weeks ago!! The people are so friendly and helpful and we've met lots of fantastic people we've had great fun with & Sunshine!! We started off by staying on the main island of Nadi for 2 nights up in the mountains which was lovely. We then started our trip with Awesome Adventures which was a 12 day/ 11 night trip around the Yasawa Islands. The first Island the Ferry dropped us off at was called Bounty Island, it is the island where they filmed 'Love Island' a few years ago, its a tiny island like the majority of them we stayed at, only a few kilometeres long and you worry when the tide comes in at night ... read more

We are writing this on the ferry over to the north island sitting on the back viewing deck watching the south island getting smaller and smaller, shame we didnt publish it at the same time!! sorry! We've had an amazing activity packed time since arriving kiwi land 2 weeks ago and hope that it will arrive through the North island. We arrived in Christchurch after our overnight flight from Perth to a cosy, funky hotel room where we monged out for a day. We then took to looking around chilly Christchurch (but not as cold as expected around 5 degrees) and found a great information center where a lovely lady planned our next 10 days, booking all our trips, the car and our accomodation. What a star! We then went to pick up our bargain car ... read more

We set off in the pouring rain (as thats all it seems to do in Pemberton is rain - good for the trees!) towards Albany. It was great to be in a city after being cut off in a tiny town and we stuffed our faces with take-aways and went to the cinema to see 'Iron Man'. Albany is a very sweet sea side town which had recently had a shark attack where a teacher was savaged only 70 meters out from the shore!! so no-one was allowed in the water and we cruised the beach hoping for a sighting as it was said there were 3 Great Whites still lurking around in the waters. We took a scenic drive around to the blow holes, 'The bridge', and 'The Gap' which were where the waves crash ... read more

After the Great Ocean Road we decided to continue our drive along the coast towards Adelaide and into South Australia. We stopped on our way at Mount Gambier's mysterious blue lake, a mile deep lake that sits on a volcano's crater and shimmers with an intense shade of blue. We spent a night at the sleepy little town of beachport before moving onto Robe where I celebrated my birthday in a lovely apartment right on the beach. I was treated to lots of lovely pressies (thanks everyone) and Lobster and Champagne for dinner - Luxury!! Our next stop was at Victor Harbour where we were greeted by massive Pelicans and took a walk over to Granite Island to try and see some Penguins but unfortunately we were out of luck!! We made the ferry crossing over ... read more

We spent quite a bit of time in the cosmopolitan city of Melbourne waiting for sara's mum and dad to join us. We were lucky enough to spend Australia day there with lots of small parties taking place throughout the city. We ended the day watching bands perform at Federation square with a fantastic firework show. Jason got tickets for Australia vs Qatar football which we watched at the impressive Telstra Dome. It was an exciting game which Australia won 3-0, so there was plenty of partying after the game. We spent most of our time at the laid back, beach bumming st. Kilda where there was a st. Kilda Festival where the whole street was closed off and they had motorbike stunts, wakeboarding and lots of bands on different stages. We were counting down the ... read more