http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:54:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:54:02 +0000 Last Time I updated this I was just about to head to Wanaka. I can39t write much about Wanaka really as the most memorable thing I did there was to get Subway breakfast for the first time. 3 for a bacon egg and cheese roll. Not bad actually.I39ve been in Queenstown for the past 89 days. I would write a day to day account of what I39ve done here but to be honest its all turned into a bi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-791808.html This is our 3rd week in Darwin staying at the Howard Springs caravan park a big park with good amenitieswe decided to use this as a base for touring.This last couple of weeks have flown by with some busy days and others not so There are 3 museums here Aviation Military and a general museum and art gallery all worth a visit and the general museum is free this one tells the story of cyclone Tr http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/blog-791772.html I read somewhere that New Zealandboasts more bookshops per capita than any other country in the world. Maybe that was true years ago but it seems to me that every time I turn around another bookshop has closed. My favourite bookshop was turned into a burger joint. This saddens me greatly but Im wilfully contributing to the problem.You see I love books. I hoard them. Its my dream to have e http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-791710.html Encounters with WildlifePapua New Guinea is a tropical and thus very biodiverse place. The number of insects animals flowers and other plants is astounding. I have had quite a few interesting cases with some of the local fauna. The houses are not sealed up here as well as back in the US and this provides opportunities for many insects and other binatangs anything that crawls to enter the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Western-Highlands/blog-791692.html Waking up at the Rocky Paddock campsite on Mount Crawford Camp was fantastic but boy it was cold. The camp fire we had was amazing it was probably burning until about 4.00am this morning and was so big it could have been seen by an overflying Satellite but it needed to be as last night was brass monkey weather. Did I hear you say how cold I39ll tell you how cold when we got in to bed with http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide-Hills/Mylor/blog-791689.html I am not sure that I am getting used to these cold mornings another morning and I don39t appear until about 8am despite having been awake since 7am.I grab a shower and by the time I get back Andy is also up and about making a cup of tea. Jan and Keith have appeared already having had their breakfast as Andy sets about making ours I already have a load in the washing machine which will need d http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Jamestown/blog-791666.html Camping out in the lounge tonight got takeaway chicken for supper and some wine of course. The only normality is the TV and still being connected to the internet. Packing up the Vito on Tuesday but looks like we need a SEMI with all the crap we have http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-791661.html After watching a magnificent sunset the last evening and waking to the sound of the bats screaming in the trees we headed off from Katherine early and headed to Mataranka where we visited the reproduction Elsey homestead which was used to film We of the Never Never more years ago than any of us wished to remember.Shirley Graham and I then wandered off to walk through the springs area and the firs http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Katherine/blog-791643.html Starting the countdown organising the bags organising the animals and trying to get organised at workReally going to try hard to keep the packing down to a minimum I should have learnt now that you don39t need three pairs of jeans in Thailand or VietnamKeep a look out for the emails and I will be doing lots of photo39s with my new camera so hopefully they will be worth looking at.If http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-791594.html Instead of 39I ate those fries that happen to be so bad for me39 to 39I really enjoyed that small portion of fries. I39ve never relax knowing this indescribable hope before. Louboutin desires that his shoes do women consider themselves to be movie stars. cheap christian louboutinAll on the pursuing best brand name footwear occur in at below 100 Footjoy Dryjoys PODS Adidas Tour 360 I http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Tonga/Tongatapu//blog-791581.html Whether you want to have wonderful party with your family or just enjoy watching your favorite rugby match on television with your partner you can make that moment more pleasurable by having some snack or food. This is the reason why you can see people grabbing and biting the food while watching cinema partying and other enjoyable occasion. It is not possible to cook the tasty food on your own a http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/CBD/blog-791549.html And from Roger Cave today proof we were really there Thanks Crusher http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-791537.html Our studio apartment in Woolahara was approximately 12 mile from the Allianz Stadium and the Sydney Cricket Ground and a 14 mile from the shops at Bondi Junction. Well arranged Sue However we were slightly disappointed with it as it was functional at best we expected better. We agreed it was like a newly painted student flat before the freshers get at it Several issues were fixed by the land http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/Bondi-Junction/blog-791534.html Our big East Coast road trip had finally started and our first stop was Port Stephens Back in Sydney we packed all our stuff into Sheilas huge boot and then waited a little while for our landlord to arrive so that we could hand over the keys and he could hand over our deposit. We had a couple view our apartment the week before and they were happy to take over the lease straight away so we as http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Port-Stephens/blog-791505.html We touched down in Auckland at around 4am after a 13 hour flight. Our friend Scott who we both knew from primary and high school kindly offered to pick us up from the airport. It was dark when we got outside and the temperature was pretty mild not what we were used to after three and a half months in South America. Scott took us back to his house in a neighbourhood called Mount Roskill which he s http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/Central/blog-791481.html After 3 days in Adelaide there was one place we had to go recommended by someone on another forum and that was Victor Harbor. It wasn39t too far from Adelaide so we got there at lunch time. It39s pretty small so admittedly not a lot to see but we walked to granite island really a short walk across the bridge where you can see penguins coming in from the sea at dusk or pay for a viewin http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Mt-Gambier/blog-791440.html Perth Part TwoAnother week or two has flown by with many activitiesappointments etc as well as lots of fun with the family in Perth. It seems that between various health checks and tests a small motorhome repair that still persists and a computer repair for Marg that didn39t go right we seem to have struggled up frustration hill Hopefully the coming week will flatten that hill once and for http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-791394.html Coronation BayWe leave Leeman behind and travel along the coastline to Port Denison Dongara and then into Geraldton.We are going to Coronation Bay a beachside camp 30ish kilometers from the city. Its a stunning view as we drive down the big hill into the camp. We are here for the weekend the weather is beautiful and its hot enough to get out on the beach in my bathers. Hooray.The fishing http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Carnarvon/blog-791280.html One of the hardest things for me to get used to when we moved to New Zealand was the money saying dollars instead of pounds cents instead of pence. I was ten. I kept mucking up my maths homework by automatically drawing pound signs where dollar signs were required. Not that it mattered it was still decimal currency it was just another reminder of how far away from http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/blog-791241.html Today I took a catamaranway bigger than I thought to the Beachcomer island part of the mamanuca island chain. I decided to take a day trip as I heard this how many people go about visiting the Beachcomber island. I had the time of my life I took the seafari trip and got to visit the island where Cast Away the movie was filmed. I love that movie and the island was insanely beautiful. The peopl http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Mamanuca-Islands/Beachcomber/blog-791158.html