Blogs from Oceania - page 6568

Happy 2007 folks, this year has flown by aint it. I'm about ready to head out of Sydney now having spent a few weeks here. This friday we're off up the coast towards Cairns with a paddy called Rob. He's doing the same route as us so it makes sense to split the cost of the car rental........a 3.6litre V6 Mitsubishi. Not playing games here I tell thi. It works out at around 400 sheets each which aint too bad for 7 weeks rental. We'll have a lot more freedom this way as well so I'm looking forward to it. For new years, we headed for Circular Quay which is near the harbour and opera house. We managed to get in by squeezing through the fence and doing the old tensing the shoulder trick to knock ... read more

Hey Guys Well, I know ive been neglecting the blog, but its all been rather hectic since my last tales were bestowed upon those unfortunate enough to be able to access the internet. I think I had come back from Queenstown the last time I wrote, as a young man (well, relatively speaking), with a head full of dreams but with pockets full of holes i had been invigorated by the south island scenery, this was soon knocked out of me after a couple of weeks back in Auckland (or after several beer soaked leaving dos - I cant quite remember which came first), but I was soon to find myself in the thick of it once more. Two weekends after my Queenstown Adventure, it was the New Zealand Leg of the WRC (World Rally Championship ... read more

Back again and not at 100% unfortunately, have had a nasty cold recently which has now turned into a cough, so you'll have to bear with me in this blog as I'll probably have loads of coughing fits whilst writing it, hopefully it shouldn't affect you reading it too much. Right, the 3rd of January we ended up in the same location as on NYE where a big screen had been erected to show the cricket. We sat out there until tea when it started to rain, so we headed to the nearest shelter we could find which by pure luck also turned out to be a pub! Despite raining in the centre of Sydney where we were, it still hadn't found it's way a couple of miles up the road to the cricket ground so ... read more

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! And welcome to my first blog of 2007. It's quite a full one because I have been super busy since my last entry and got up to all kinds of wonderful and amazing things. I am sorry it has taken me so long to get it published, but I was having a lot of trouble loading up the pictures. As it is, I have added only a fraction of them, because it was really just taking too long. So I have not put on anything from the Catlins Coast (Invercargill to Dunedin) or from Dunedin, like my pics from the Taieri Gorge Railway. Sorry about that! I might try adding these at a later date... Anyway....Going way back to 2006 firstly...On Christmas Day I flew from Auckland on the north island to Queenstown ... read more

We set off to Rubyvale to make our fortune saphire mining. This was a very interesting experience, digging in former river beds hoping to find the big one! It rained really heavily the night before we set off to meet our fossicker expert, good job we have a 4WD- but our boots struggled. The bush was hot, wet but we had a ball, digging, getting in a mess, sifting buckets of much for that little ray of colour. We did find some saphires, which at the time was veryexciting- none proved big enough to show off in a special ring or something? Lots of people were set up for the entire winter, living in tents or camper vans- complete with portaloo on site... read more