Blogs from Oceania - page 6500

Drove to Wellington. It's a nice city with loads of shops. The view driving from Paraparaumu to the capital is breathtaking as the road goes right along the coast. Apparently there are quite a few head-on collisions because drivers spend too much time looking at the view rather than the road. We played pool and darts in an English pub for a while and then went to a few more bars. It was quite a quiet night for a saturday and the bards didn't really fill up until midnight. You do notice a big gap in the age groups here though. There didn't seem to be anyone between the ages of 20 and 30. This is undoubtedly because most Kiwis at that age leave the country. ... read more

Sorry you have not been hearing from me for a while I have been in the country No internet connection. Its been really tough ! Catching up now though. Saturday 20th After breakfast Martin and I decided to get out on the water. We took the rowing boat out and took it in turns to row along the shore, the wind was a little strong for a row boat and we were being blown about too much and this was making it hard work, so we returned to get the Sailing dinghy out of the boat shed and try our luck at sailing on the lake. Its been a while and I have forgotten more than I can remember about sailing but it all comes back to me bit by bit and it’s a good ... read more

On recupere la tente du pote a James et on se dirige vers la peninsule de Coromandel. Endroit absolument magnifique avec foret presque tropicale et cote sauvage. On s'arrete dans un petit camping sympa. Ici les campings sont super classes. Il y a en general toujours une cuisine, plus ou moins ammenagee, une salle tele, un coin barabecue.. bref l'ideal pour des gens comme nous qui n'avont pas beaucoup de materiel. Les principaux endroits touristiques du coin sont Cathedrale Cove, une plage magnifique et Hot Water Beach, ou se situe une source d'eau chaude qui fait qu'a marree basse on peut se creuser sa propre piscine thermale. Le spectacle est assez drole. Tout le monde s'est achete sa pelle et fini le cul dans 30 centimetres d'eau juste chaude! Prochaine etape, Rotorua. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... read more

Wednesday 17th January 2007 We drove down to Ayr to go wreck diving on the S.s Yongala. You can go from Townsville, but it is 3 hours there on the boat and we were heading south anyway. AS it happens it was a good job we didn't have to spend 6 hours on the boat. We took 30 minutes to get to the dive site from Ayr and in that time most of us were feeling really ill. Lisa was the first to throw up and aftyer my first dive I wasn't too far behind... It was really choppy. I actually lost count of the number of time I threw up, including on the surface just about to dive and on the surface just after, as I tried to get on the boat (Lisa had to ... read more

Ian and Julie were staying at a B and B a few streets away, so they came for breakfast (on the Barbie of course). Then we caught the local bus to the train station and travelled to Fremantle (the locals call it Freo) via Perth. The train journey was pleasurable as all the stations we stopped at were of different settings. At some towns the houses were really new and others were old and traditional, complete with front porches. At ‘Freo’ we ventured into a few shops looking for hats. The sun was so strong so some of us decided to buy a hat. Lynne, Julie, Ian and I all managed to complete our mission. Then had to quenched our thirsts and visited a pub called ‘Sail and Anchor Pub’ which is situated in the heart ... read more