Blogs from Oceania - page 7357

Oon ihan unohtanu kaikki meidän mokat kirjottaa tänne.. heh heh! siis ollaanhan me oltu jo ainakin 2vuorokautta täällä... ;) Ekana päivänä Minna sai paikalliset huutamaan "Oh my God!" ja mä vaan nauroin vieressä.. Eihän tossa tilanteessa voi olla kuin nauramatta! siis oisitte kuullu sen! Minna siis peruutti ulos junasta ja toinen jalka jäi sinne junan ja laiturin väliin. Ei sille kuinkaan onneks käynny! mut me oltiin varmaan tosi idiootin näkösiä, ku toinen järkyttyneenä istuu laiturilla ja toinen hohottaa vieressä kuin mikäkin mielipuoli.. Tullimiehet sit kyseli, et mitähän tullattavaa kasseista löytyy. "bred and candys" what? Onions?" se oli ihan hauska mies. ja toinen ihmetteli meidän kannettavissa olevaa COP merkkiä. Selitä siinä sitte, että se on vaan meidän koulun lyhenne. en mä mikään poliisi oo! ;) ja yks surffaripoika nähtiin eilen. :P Tänään kahdeksalta aamulla ystävällin... read more

Picton On our last evening we looked up two friends of Joanne's from Scoraigh(?) and had a good time. Lovely evening. Next morning started brilliantly and we got off on the 10am ferry into the Tory Channel of the Sounds. Half way across the Cook Strait we hit a storm which made the ferry bend over and everyone scuttle inside. It went up and down a bit then. What a change! I'm not sure about this North Island. Wellington Luckily when we prepared the bike and ourselves for the ride into Wellington centre the rain stopped. It was still cool though. However, weather has now improved. We saw Les Arts Sauts on Friday night, The Producers on Saturday night. Visited Te Papa, their wonderful national museum opened fairly recently and right up to date with its ... read more

Sydney! So i finally made it to Australia. My final flight for a few months and i get stopped by customs for a random check. They had to call over the customs manager to check that smuggling in marmite wasn't an arrestable offense, and to verify if i needed to clean my boots. Good good customs agents. Anyway, i'm slowly but surely deciding what i need to be doing with myself. Gonna head out on Monday and get a bank account set up and see about getting tax file numbers and such. Currently looking into work in either the Melbourne or Brisbane area, along with apartments and such in those areas. Gonna visit the harbour and Opera House at some point, thinking i might get to the Tower later this evening for a look of the ... read more

I heard about this great hostel from a couple at Kinloch lodge so I booked two nights here before I left. I wanted to visit Punakiki because it has a rugged coastline and the famous "Blow Holes" where the pounding surf surges through vertical holes in the sandstone and blows up into the sky. Quite dramatic. Anyway I arrived yesterday to a rainforest retreat surrounded by native forest and 8 minutes from an incredible beach. I'm staying in a small A-frame that has windows on the ceiling that look up into the forest and the sky. I can see the stars at night. I have to walk a small trail into my oasis through forest and past other well hidden retreats. My place doesn't have electricity so last night I lit 10 small candles and read ... read more

Last night, before I went to bed, Mom warned me that there was one cockroach that they had on board. Supposedly it is the large kind and so is a lone cockroach, and in the south pacific, where they've been everybody gets at least one. Well, my little bed is right by the hatch to the outside. And in the bathrooms, there were a bunch of little black crickets for some reason. Yeah, bugs. Ick! I didn't think I'd have to face that here in NZ. As I was chanting right before bed, one of the things that I was chanting about was a BUG FREE ZONE all around my bed. I slept about 8 hours, but it was a bit fitful. A boat is NOISEY! Creeking, rocking, clicking, all kinds of noises, not to mention ... read more