Blogs from Oceania - page 7368

Well Hello all....it has been so long since my last blog, no idea where to start....so i will just put in some highlights of the last couple months... Dad and Nicci have been here and we had an awesome time....the weather could have been better...i tried to keep them busy which is not hard as there is so much do to here and am sure they would agree....the party never stopped when they got here....i dragged them out with all my friends and Nicci even made some of her own....Dad rocked on to the wee hours of the morning with us also....it isnt hard when you are out with 8 or so girls...lol...so they were here for 3 weeks then the dudes (Matt and Trav ) showed up...."This is where it gets fuzzy" I picked ... read more

Day 94 Checked out and got a lift to the wharf then boarded the ferry back to Syndey. Caught the underground, walked a bit then checked into our hostel. Went for a mooch around yet more shops but were knackered so just chilled out at the hostel. Had dinner and that was about it!... read more

A free bus arrived in Noosa to take us to Australia Zoo a family who hadn't prebooked seats were forced to wait to see if there were any spaces. They included about the only children in the group & they managed to squeeze on in the end. The special extended version of Steve Irwins life story was playing on the bus refamiliarising us with classic Irwinisms such as 'Woo Hoo', 'Isn't She a Beauty' & 'Sweating Bullets'. The extended version meant we didn't get to see it all before we were at the zoo. The first animal we saw was a water monitor crossing our path, these critters were all over the zoo & they were pretty tame too. Australia Zoo has the oldest animal in captivity, a large land tortoise from the Galapagos called Harriett ... read more

On arriving in Wellington our friend Dan came to pick us up from the ferry terminal. We went to stay with him and Jen for a few days and had an awesome time. We had a marathon tennis session which unfortunately Dan and Jen won (although they do have a tennis court in their garden and we hadn't played for years)! Our next destination was Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island. We had a relaxing time doing nothing much, just enjoying the scenery and the laid back atmosphere. For a bit of Maori culture we set off to Rotorua where we visited a thermal village which was home to a Maori tribe. Here we witnessed the Haka, natural geysers and an example of how the Maori people cook and bathe in the thermal ... read more

That's not a knife......this is a knife As my boss at Sydney Dept. of Education, the good old Terry Crotty (Snotty Crotty), would say: There are two things I hate about Bushwalking. Bush and Walking. He was never the funniest man on the planet, but with his jokes about employing Sweedish girls called Agnetha and asking us to Put the cat out every time he left the office for the day, (yes, every day), Adam and I loved him, in the way you love a senile old grandad. Anyway, Adam, Smoss and their mate Ben, who had turned up over Christmas after trecking around the globe, had managed to get a little trip out into the Ku-Ring-GaiChase National Park and HawkesburyRiver area organised to sample the infamous bush. It was a good day out, tramping around ... read more