Blogs from Oceania - page 7099

O guys had to come a do this tonight as had a great day today!!!! Didn't think i'd enjoy it as much as I did especially when I woke up this morning and realised I wasn't dreaming and my head WAS actually going to drop off from the monstrous hangover I had!!!!............................................................ Today we went to the Lone Pine Koala Santuary........ I HELD A KOALA!!! He was called Kakadu (a name of a ntional park we were meant to go to when up in Darwin- which we didn't- gutted bout that)...................................................He was sooooo cute and fluffy soft!....................... and heavy! Louisa loved it more than I................. most of her family had been during visits to Oz and they held one called Dave!- how funny! We didn't hold him but I found out where Dave was chilin out ... read more

Day 56 - Sunday 28 May 2006 Port Hedland to Marble Bar (the hottest town in the country) Only 200 km’s to travel today. It was reasonably cool leaving Port Hedland this morning and cloudy. The sun has come out so nice for travelling. The scenery all around us is red dirt and mountains of green coverage. Cattle scattered through the bush and lots of long road trains coming back to Port Hedland. The road trains are mostly 4 trailers long. I can only recall passing one with the caravan on and I thought we were never going to make it. Well - Marble Bar what can I say. Very quiet and a bit like a ghost town and unusual people. The three people that we spoke to had only recently moved here and that was ... read more

This was our first weekend in Sydney. It's certain to be the first of many - for a start the shopping is not that great in Canberra! Sydney is about a three hour drive from Canberra along the Hume Highway. It's quite a scenic drive (the first time, at least!) - lots of countryside and trees (and more trees), the odd kangaroo and the huge (and completely dry) Lake George. For this first weekend we stayed in Coogee, in the Coogee Bay Hotel on the sea front. We walked the coast path from Coogee to Bondi Beach, strolled around circular quay and the CBD and, erm, bought shelves in Ikea. Perhaps some things never change...... read more

Hello Dad! Hope you enjoy a wonderful 65th birthday. Sorry we are not there to celebrate with you, but we are thinking of you! lots of love Adele and Simon xxxx ... read more

So Siobhan and I set off from Auckland having known each other for about 90 mins but its all good she seems a nice girl and we get on and don’t have much of any drama with me map reading and Siobhan driving. So we pull into Matamata at 14:28 the tour guide is sat outside the booking office I am not sure what this tour is going to be like but anything to do with Lord of the Rings I am sold on so we get into the booking office quick as the next tour leaves at 14:30. Phew just made it. So we set off with JR who is a typical Kiwi bloke nice as pie and loving what he is doing, so he starts explaining about where the auditions took place, how people ... read more