Day 4 – 3 and 2 September Carrying on from the Auckland page Despite the cell like nature of the room, we had a sort of ok sleep n the Bin Chicken hotel. We dropped off the hire car and checked in for our flight. We managed to get all […]
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I had an unsettling encounter with a White Tip Reef shark while Ocean Swimming in the lagoon at Matuku Island recently on our Fiji trip. We had been dropped off in deep water by the zodiacs for our swim, I knew there was shallow reef very nearby so I swam […]
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The Williams travelled to Melbourne for the Australian Open and other experiences. First impression on arrival is that it is freezing at 14 degrees, feels like 10, this afternoon 33 degrees and high humidity for the last few weeks in Queensland. Great jobh Williams, after enjoying our coffee at Pelligrinis […]
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We visited Chalkies Beach on our first full day, on a catamaran which also took us to Whitehaven Beach. Plum Pudding Island is a small island between the northern ends of Hamilton and Dent Islands with a small and vibrant reef surrounding it. A highlight here was the beautiful Phyllidiid […]
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Frev were joined by close friends for a walking trip with Parktreks to Bruny Island, a trip that always seemed to be in the distant future, but now was suddenly upon us. The four of us travelled to Brisbane Airport together from the Sunshine Coast to catch our earlyish flight […]
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I took these photos using my 24-105mm lense, they seem to have come out ok but I really wish I’d had my 100mm macro lense and tripod as these funghi were enchanting. All the photos were taken in a temperate rain forest near Adventure Bay called the Mavista Trail.
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Of course it poured with rain on our arrival day, leaving us with a gloomy foreboding that we’d be having a wet cruise, however, it turned out it was the last day of a wet perio and we were set to enjoy some magnificent weather. Happy fam after an awesome […]
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We flew into Lady Elliot Island from Hervey Bay on the morning of Saturday 14 Jan 2023. The weather was sketchy with lots of rain squalls around, some of which we flew through so our view was obscured for large parts of the flight. These rain squalls were caused by […]
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