Quick 7 day trip to MZ to help Mum packup and move from New Plymouth to Tauranga. Neryda and Claire had done a heap of work re garage sale and packing in order to get things happening and the weekend I arrived, Neryda and Peter also stayed so we put …
Our final full day on board today and a full day at sea. We are crossing the Timor sea heading up to Kupang in Indonesia to then catch a flight back to Darwin and eventually home to Brisbane. It seems all ‘foreign owned’ vessels must make one of their voyage …
Today we have anchored at the entrance to the King George River, way up north on the map! It’s a 3 hr zodiac cruise today which takes us into the King George river, in and around it’s multiple tributaries and up to the end of the river to where the …
Today we have anchored at the entrance to the King George River, way up north on the map! Another night at sea as we head up to “Bigge Island’ the second largest island after Dirk Hartog in this ‘Bonaparte Archipelago’ off the Australian coast. Took a pleasant ‘stroll’ over and …
We are continually being reminded this is an ‘Expedition’ not a cruise but we still seem to have the same level of comfort albeit no pool to blob in. Staff to manage our rooms and more staff to feed us all the food they possibly can!! The name of the …
Slept well, awoke early but a quick read of my book and I nodded off again for another couple of hours. 7am and the captain gets on the loud speaker, ‘sorry to get you all up early but there’s an infestation…. of whales on the starboard side! Had cringed at …
Started out yesterday Brisbane to Sydney. A long day today with an almost 5 hr flight from Sydney to Perth, 2 hrs wait then 2 ½ hrs up to Broome. Just arrived in 9pm east coast time but seems a bit silly going to bed here at 7pm! Dark so …
Flight from Sydney to Perth, one of the nicer flights we’ve been on, with the little more expensive option of course to make it happen that way. Turned out to be a long day with just under 5 hrs to Perth, a 2 hour wait there then onto a smaller …
A train trip you need to do! The Taieri Gorge train is a return 4hr trip through an amazingly scenic gorge sparsely populated with high country sheep who haven’t seen the inside of a shearing shed for a long time, the Taieri River all the way and steep walled hills …
