http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania en-us Wed, 02 Dec 09 20:42:58 +0000 Wed, 02 Dec 09 20:42:58 +0000 Ich wei nicht ob ihrs richtig erkennen knnt auf dem Bild aber das ist die selbst gebastelte Weihnachtskarte von Miguel auch the Silver Fox genannt graue Haare usw... fr alle Mitarbeiter vom Caf Marina Der Gute hat eindeutig zuviel Zeit und ist absolut verrckt Hab selten so gelacht Mit der Berlin Wall und Frankfur Sausage bin brigens ich gemeint... Die Rechtschreibung lsst n bis http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Gold-Coast/Main-Beach/blog-457699.html Today Robert Tracy Steve and I went for a drive down the south coast. We had a lovely day. We drove South to Batemans Bay and then took the Tourist Drive travelling through places such as Mossy Point Moruya Tuross Heads and Narooma. We had lunch and a lovely walk at Narooma. We also stopped at the lookout at Tuross. After lunch we drove down as far as Mystery Bay before heading back to M http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/South-Coast/blog-457612.html Kia Ora I arrived in New Zealand on Friday and went on a twodays paleontological excursion with Michael. After working at the Uni we always drive down to the beach to take a look at this stunning ecosystem and its inhabitants. We even saw three yellow eyed penguins one of the most rarest penguins Anyway see my picturesThe weather's pretty cold at least compared to my last stops with up to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/blog-457607.html Ok so the weather has not let up since i have arrived with the exception of one day where i decided to get myself so sunburnt that i can only now sit on my thighs comfortably 4 days later. i only missed one part of my body with cream Other than that it has given england a run for its money. Although to be fair i have been told the whole of the country has suffered this front and i should n http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-457582.html Both me and Marc had delicious lieins today. My eye has developed a juicy black eye and my arm feels like it's been punched from my Tetanus jab. Lazed about for a bit until realising I actually should get my ass into gear and try and get my laptop sorted. I had arranged to meet Nadia at the wake up at 4 because it was the 2nd to last day to see Michael Jacksons 'This Is It' and on Tuesdays it's http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Newtown/blog-457581.html Yesterday was spent leisurely walking around Adelaide Zoo. The first animals you come across as you entre the zoo are the Barbary Sheep. Rather strangely in the next enclosure are the alligators There were two in the enclosure the first was smaller and didn't seem so threatening. The larger one although half submerged and standing completely still terrified me. The five foot wall didn't qui http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-457580.html On Monday 30th we travelled to Paihia and booked into the Bay Sands motel for just one night. We thought about staying two nights but the traffic was so noisy at night we settled for just the one We walked the beaches and generally had a very lazy day The weather was quite good although not very sunny. The threatened rain did not eventuate fortunately. We watched the activities on the beach fro http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/Paihia/blog-457557.html Yesterday I decided to check out the Adelaide Gaol. It was built on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1841 and as Adelaide is one of the only colonial towns not be settled by convicts local people scoffed at the idea of needing a prison. They were soon proved to be less that law abiding citizens and a number of various people began filling up the jail. The layout is a semicircle with the womens yar http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-457392.html Holiday to Townsville Self proclaimed capital of Tropical North QueenslandWe had some air miles to use up before November courtesy of my old employer BA so we had a look on the internet for places to go that were with in reach of the air miles I had accrued. After about a week we decided to try out Townsville primarily because we had never been there and what better excuse do you need some tim http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-457364.html HeyI hope you are all good I cant believe that it is December already it seems that 2009 is just zooming by and I cant quite believe that we are heading into Christmas. Believe me its really weird having our first warm Christmas I keep seeing the sky at night get lighter and lighter as well as all the blossom coming out on the trees...it really doesn't compute in my head at allIt seems ages http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/blog-457313.html Heading OutWe had been talking about heading out for a few weeks since we had been in Tauranga looking for work for nearly three weeks some other people had left and Carla got a job with the city that started in two and a half weeks. Just as we were preparing to leave the next day we got a call from one of the employment services agencies to work a night shift at the fish factory. We went w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Hawkes-Bay/blog-457278.html One sunny Sunday we headed out to the beach at Mount Maunganui with our American friends Jess and Matt for a barbecque. We had seen other beach side barbecques along the way and they were all coin operated so we were pleasantly surprised when we got to the beach and discovered they were free. That's right all that beach and free barbecques they make being a beach bum pretty easy on you at the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/Mount-Maunganui/blog-457270.html After a perfect last night in BKK and a 12 hrs flight I touched ground in Sydney Australia this morning.I am spending the first few days at Bondi Beach... unfortunately its a little cold and rainy the next 2 days. Today was good though while waiting to check into the backpackers I took a walk on the beach and across some rocks and met Patrick and Trent 2 Bondi Beach originals. They run a little http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-457161.html We picked up the Ute the pickup mysteriously changed description somewhere south of the equator before being unloaded at Fremantle a few days ago after no end of problems. Apparently the foreign number plate will be a real talking point because unlike the French who have been allowing the Germans to invade them in their own cars at will for about a century now not to mention boatloads of Brits http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-457152.html The second day on our Kangaroo Island tour was just as busy as the first. A few of our group members went for an early morning ATV drive. The rest of us were able to enjoy an extra hourrsquos worth of sleep so it was an even trade. Once all back together we went to Seal Bay. This is where a colony of Australian Sealions live. Itrsquos a rough life being a sealion. They spend days out http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Kangaroo-Island/blog-457105.html One night in Darwin between sections of the tour saw Agnes myself and a Swiss guy in his mid30's heading off to the Nirvana an Indian Thai Malaysian restaurant with live entertainment. The food was good the entertainment was not. It was just another poor open mic night.The following morning saw us heading off to Litchfield National Park. The group was in large part the same as from the Alice http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Kakadu-National-Park/blog-457098.html IN AUCKLAND FOR THE CONCERTOn my return to my room a crazy scottish guy imediately started talking to me. He was just sat on his own in the room drinking whisky out of a hip flask and seemed pretty drunk already. He seemed friendly enough and when the rest of the room arrived 2 elderly people Nora and John and 2 young Germans who'd just arrived from Hamburg he insisted that we should have a par http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-457071.html Well it's finally come around....BALIWe leave for Bali tomoz for 12 weeks for those that are coming to visit us THUMBS UP and for those who are not SHAMESHAMESHAMEWe will have our computer with us so can still be contactable on email.Seeya's http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/blog-457041.html I've got an update on the Melbourne Hostel looks like I got unlucky the people who replaced the people I first stayed with were lovely I had a good evening chatting with 3 new single serving friends and even took a midnight excursion into Melbourne which finished about 0230am and gained me some nice photos of Melbourne by night. With the addition of a now clean room some decent company and http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Great-Ocean-Road/Torquay/blog-456908.html DAY 386I was born in Castle Bromwich near Birmingham in 1963 and spent most of my adult life living in Southampton strangely enough both places synonymous with the Spitfire the creation of RJ Mitchell a brillant aircraft designer and aircraft that still makes the hairs on my arms stand up everytime I see one.Castle Bromwich is the place where my childhood was enjoyed a great village formed http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Temora/blog-456858.html