Blogs from Oceania - page 7088

Wellington After finishing our South Island adventures, George, Tom, Ally & I took the Inter Islander ferry UP to the North Island. This was a rocky three hour ride to the capital of New Zealand, Wellington. Wellington was a groovy, bustling place, big on Arts, cafe/food culture, and New Zealands film culture resides here, especially Lord of the bloody Rings! If fact every shop in NZ will sell preciously cheap LOTR takk, to expensive Elvish rings like the one in the film! nice... We stayed for three nights at Base hostel - which is a big chain in hostels, fairly cheap, over used kitchens & tv area, etc...We had a wicked night out at Shooters bar where we partied with Mouri's (or nutters!!) After a few lazy days we hiked up to the highest point of ... read more

G'day!! Starting from where I left of then - last weekend we very kindly had some free time again! So we put that to good use - on the saturday we went to Rottnest Island - a small but perfectly formed and very picturesque island just of the coast from freo. Not much to do there really but it was a very relaxing day - went round the whole island, had a relaxing stroll looking at the island native animals - Quokkas. These furry critters are basically small Kangaroos but Ames thought they were cute. On the sunday we went into Perth for a nose around. It's a fairly nice city - it's very clean and modern - the streets are really clean and there is no chewing gum stuck on the floor! It's a funny ... read more

We have been having so much fun in the campervan- but it gets really cold at night, so have resorted to having the two sleeping bags and duvet and sheep at night, and its still cold - oh well - we are used to it being hardened british. Hey another idea of how cold it is, they gave us snow chains when we rented the van - how cool is that!!! hopefully we wont have ot use it! Just a quick one as we are in a remote place and the net is expensive....went to see some seals and penguins today, and the moreaki boulders - beck you will have to explain them to me!!!! Star gazed last night which was just amazing cos there was literally no light polution and the sky was full of ... read more

Helloo there everyone... This week we have mostly been in Melbourne, sampling the sights and sounds and munch in this funky city :) Melbourne is cool and small enough to get about the whole of the city centre on foot, or if you're lazy like us - on the tram (once youve figured out which one you want and where the hell its going!) Theres lots of shopping, museums and yummy places to eat - like the chocolate heaven that is Max Brenners Chocolate Cafe! Must have been in there about 3 times so far this week - the best hot chocolate and cakes and puddings ever...all served with a lil pot of melted chocolate for you to dip into! Mmmmm...there are giant 10 kg slabs of dark, white and milk chocolate around the cafe - ... read more

Day 12 (June 2) Wow! I just jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet. It was amazing. As you can see from my picture I was terrified... I had a great time on the hike with my new British friends (Adrian, Sophie, and Lucy). They're so nice and fun and we all have similar senses (?) of humor. After the hike we were headed the same direction so we've carpooled over the last few days. I'll post pics of them when I get a chance... I first heard about sky diving in Taupo when I was in Raglan. A Canadian guy was telling me about it and said it was one of the coolest things he'd ever done. I then heard the same thing from a few more people... My Brit friends were all ... read more