Blogs from Oceania - page 6493

Having fully completed our road trip in Albany we headed back to the Perth area to reluctantly hand back our motor, then went for a few nights in Fremantle, so called Freo by the locals. Fremantle is only a few miles from Perth but it has completely different atmosphere and character. Staying in a less than perfect, dirty, overcrowded but lively backpackers called Pirates we had three nights in freo just to do nowt after our tours. It is one of the few towns in Oz that has a bit of extra character to it, a problem with such a new country. Freo consists of loads of brew pubs, cafes, markets and shops and is set right on the mouth of the Swan river on the fishing harbour, good fish and chips. Having got bored of ... read more

This place is just about partying and adrenaline sports. I wasn't going to do much here as skydiving was what I came here for. Also I had done many of ther activites in South Africa a few years back which were a lot more extreme and also a lot cheaper. However I got bored so I signed up for all 3 bungy's sites. One of them was the Nevis which was 134m jumping off a cable car. Its currently the biggest in the world but I did the 218m jump in South Africa 4 years ago. Its close now due to a death and safety issues which is a worry but hey what the hell. Loved the jump and I'm actually going to do another in 1 hour strapped to my waist instead of my feet ... read more

Yeeahhhh, vandaag met de dolfijnen gezwommen was beetje een gedoe, er mogen namelijk maar 13 mensen zwemmen per boot, en aangezien het vandaag super mooi was (28 graden), was het al vol toen ik kwam. ik kon alleen wel mee als 'shareswimmer' dan betaal je iets minder, maar dan mag je in het water als iemand anders eruit gaat. ok, ik dacht, wie niet waagt wie niet wint. wij (Bjorn en ik) met de boot (hij ging alleen kijken), na 15 minuten een hele school! zoo gaaf, eentje was helemaal gek, sprong alle kanten op in de lucht. de mensen mochten 4 keer kort in het water, en het was zo gaaf dat ze erin bleven(groot gelijk) probeerde er nog een de boot af te tackelen zodat ik kon..helaas niet gelukt. 9ook geen haaien om ze ... read more

We got into Taupo pretty late on the 20th, and then couldn't find our hostel for the longest time. We also found out the that the Indy 500 of NZ was here in Taupo this weekend. There were people everywhere. I was pretty exhausted that night, so as soon as we got into the hostel, I was in a bed. Taupo itself is a really cool city; it's on Lake Taupo (it's huge) and on the right is green rolling hills, to the left are high cliffs, and across are mountains. It's quite the view. Our hostel is actually really cool with big, open commons areas with huge windows and sliding doors, overlooking the lake. I'm a fan. We've been here for a few days, both of which have been pretty much free days. Yesterday we ... read more

Jan 17. Egrets, bats hanging in trees lining road into Bega. Top spruik. Newspaper article due. More spruik. Called papers in Sydney. No good. ABC SE NSW with Tim Holt interview recorded for airing on Monday Jan 22. Hot. Returned Tathra. Jan 18. Mimosa N.P. just north of Tathra. Last night prawners, lights bobbing. Morning fish jumping in shallow remote corner of the river. Fairy-wrens. Old homestead with rusting tin, collapsing buildings, fallen and rotting fences. This place needs a good cleanout. Yellow-tailed black cockatoos feeding on the pine cones of monstrous old trees. Yellow robin? Piping of bellbird. Kookaburra, kangaroo. Bermagui. Long successful spruik. Moruya. Ulladella. Jan 19. New Holland honeyeaters. A grey honeyeater with two red streaks one fore and one aft. Not found in book. Brilliant spruik Ulladulla. Later drama on ocean as ... read more