Blogs from Oceania - page 7781

Me again....am now in Queenstown, the "adventure capital" - i.e. the place where anything that in the real world is too dangerous and/or expensive to do is almost mandatory. Most of it is clearly too scary/expensive for me, but I dare say I'll be getting a bit wet tomorrow in the name of adventure. Most likely jet boating given it happens early and I have to leave in the afternoon. I have been told that recently people have been ejected from it onto rock faces etc. which might put some people off...? Absolutely NO bungy jumping for me though!! FWIW; it does appear to be a town, but I have yet to see any Queens. Have travelled from Franz - Queenstown today on a bus, stopping at a pile of cafes (seems like NZ tourists/drivers need ... read more

Well we did it ... no not run off and get married when none of you were looking, but "The Nevis". 134m of utter terror. I have never been so scared in my entire life. I was a gibbering wreck. Bryan was as cool as a cucumber.. talk about role reversel on the extreme sports. I was nervous when we arrived, I was green when I saw the "small" 43m bridge and by the time I saw the contraption which I was going to hurl myself off I was distraught. You have to get a cable car to a 'pod' swaying percariously on little metal strings in the middle of the canyon. Everyone ahead of me just walked up to the platform and wheeeeeeeee off they went, not even a pause. Then the guy infront of ... read more

We meant to wake up really early to go to a lake called Lake Matheson, where you are supposed to see reflections of Mount Cook in the water and it's beautiful in sunrise or right after. But the night before we met some nice people in the backpacker and we chatted too long... So we still went the all way around the fanmous TINY lake and the views of the high mountains were suberb but the reflections were really poor. No fight to the beauty I saw in Norway on the way to the glacier there, and right from the road... Shai if you find the picture and can send me a copy I will put it here for comparison :-) Then I drove all the long way to Wanaka, during which we stopped in ... read more

PNG News - Baa February 18th, 2005 Baa Baa Black Sheep Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir Three bags full One for the master One for the dame And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. Just down the lane from my official work at Good Shepherd Seminary, senior statesman and PNG’s current governor general, Sir Paulias Matane spoke at the Fr. Peter Secondary School. (February 6, 2005) At the podium, amongst Western Highland’s bigmen, he told us that when he was 17 year old boy he went to school for the first time and memorized this rhyme. He asked his teacher ‘what is a black sheep? And what is wool? What is a dame? And a lane?’ He didn’t ask about the word ‘master’. His teacher, who he suggested had ... read more

Dear all, I've finally added pictures to my journal entries. To see them all, go to the old entries and click on the "travel Journal" link to display the full entry along with the pics. If there are any problems, just e-mail me. Diana... read more