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Apr 18 Sandy Point
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David runs along a typical twisting-through-the-forest-along-the-edge-of-the-water path to an inlet, watching for koala and Tiger snakes. None. The tide is out so the inlet is a mud flat about the size of four baseball fields. Several pelicans, a dozen black… Continue reading
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Apr 15 Daintree
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We come at 9:15 for the lodge’s continental brekkie so we completely fail to understand why no one seems concerned that tables are dirty and there’s no bread to be toasted and lukewarm coffee in the carafe. We later learn… Continue reading
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Apr 14 Daintree
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We have a quick breakfast and David, being the slow and stubborn learner he always has been, simply drinks coffee and eats nothing despite Cynthia’s admonition that he might want some energy seeing as how he’ll be snorkeling for two… Continue reading
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Apr 11 Hall’s Gap to Bendigo
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Halls gap to Bendigo museums and parks. We say au revoir until Fiji to Wayne and Myra, load the car, clean the cabin and depart on almost totally empty roads for Bendigo, one of Victoria state’s major gold-mining towns of… Continue reading
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Apr 10 Hall’s Gap to Dreamtime
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Visit with Hanson family, tour area with Aboriginal guide. What do 1,000 cockatoos sound like in the morning right outside your window? Answer: You don’t know because you can’t think. The sound is so loud that it numbs your senses.… Continue reading
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Apr 6 Port Fairy to Hahndorf
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Long drive from Port Fairy to the Adelaide Hills with Coonawarra wine tasting on the way. We get a very late start after administrative chores and shopping for sandwiches to take on the road, so we’re on the road to… Continue reading
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Mar 28 Hobart to Strahan
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Drive Hobart to Strahan via Mt Fields National Park and ”the wall” We try to leave Michael and Ingrid’s immaculate and fascinatingly art-filled apartment as neat and tidy as it welcomed us, and we motor out of Hobart, over its… Continue reading
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Mar 13 Okarito to Fox Glacier
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Kayak on lagoon and travel to Fox. We have 8:00 a.m. coffee and tea with Rich and Karen, lodge-mates from Madison, Wisconsin, who are going on the Okarito lagoon bird-watching kayak adventure with us at 8:45. As we prepare to… Continue reading
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Mar 12 Hokitika to Okarito
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Drive to Okarito and see a kiwi in the wild. We take forever to pack, book some kiwi hunting for the next day, gas up and leave Hokitika by 11:30, wending away from the coast and toward the foothills of… Continue reading
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Mar 9 Westport / Karamea
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Tramping in Karamea with hitchhikers. David wakes and runs by 7 on a narrow path along the wide Buller River, which looks a little like the flat parts of the Shenandoah River near Great Meadows, Virginia. Weka scuttle in the… Continue reading
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Feb 24 Wellington
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Takahe, Tuatara, Rangiora, Kawa kawa, tree weter, Kaka, Bellbird and a Rimu tree at Zealandia … The Piano Ballet. We had a slow start spending the morning catching up on rest and laundry. Then we set out with the McInerneys… Continue reading
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Feb 22 Havelock North to Wellington
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Said goodbye to Kate and drove to Wellington with a stop at the Pukaha Wildlife Center at Mt Bruce. Rendezvous with McInerneys and cooked the trout from Tongariro River. David climbed all three peaks, returned to the Dawsons’… Continue reading
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Feb 12 Auckland
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Muriwai gannet colony and beach, Mt Eden and One Tree Hill – sunny day Heavy scudding overcast but we see almost turquoise sky behind the thick clouds. So Judy drives us up, down and around Auckland’s many volcanic hills… Continue reading
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Feb 10 Auckland
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Judith Bishell is waiting at Auckland airport, settles us in and takes us around town. We have settled into Judy Bishell’s IMMACULATE home where we spread the contents of our luggage — we already realize that we have brought… Continue reading
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