Lord Howe Island, Australia Travel Blogs

Incredible Fish and a Big Climb to Kim's Lookout
Mar 4, 2009 (22 photos)

It has been a great few days on Lord Howe Island, but the very best part has to be snorkeling here. Yesterday afternoon, after my mom and dad got back from hiking up Mt. Gower (very steep, so Lu and I stayed with Sam, the nice lady who works at Arajilla ...

Snorkeling on Lord Howe Island
Mar 2, 2009 (19 photos)

... kinds, like kingfish, parrot fish, and even sharks (but not the dangerous great white ones). One of the good things about Lord Howe Island is that there is nothing dangerous - no snakes, no dangerous insects, no great whites, no predators (there were no ...

Touching Turtles under a Rainbow
Mar 4, 2009 (8 photos)

Tonight we had the perfect ending to a good day! We went down to the beach by our lodge at sunset. I rode my bike and tried to ride all the way across the beach but it was tough! As I was about to go in the ocean to meet Dad and Lu, a rainbow ...

First day
Jul 4, 2007 (4 photos)

... . Joined a New Zealand couple on the lookout, and what a spectacular lookout it was, with panoramic views all around the island.  After 20 minutes enjoying the view I carried on in the same direction for another 700m back down to Lagoon road.  ...

Mount Gower Kicked My Rear End
Mar 3, 2009

HALFWAY DOWN MOUNT GOWER Greetings from Lord Howe Island! This morning, India and I got up early and left the kids with a sitter from the hotel.   ...

Getting there
Jul 3, 2007 (10 photos)

... stills stocks all sorts of interesting other things such as a teeny tiny little field guide to the birds of Lord Howe Island and a gorgeous photocopied A4 newspaper carrying exciting news such as the exact rainfall during various peak periods of the recent ...

Wedding anniversary
Jul 5, 2007 (7 photos)

... to stand up to bullies, she'd learn resilience and resourcefulness and the main advantage was that it would make her appreciate her island friends.  Quite a change from the kind of crap we get from the mummies of our precious princesses!! G: We had ...

Around the island
Jul 9, 2007 (12 photos)

... into things as laid down in the Field Guide "Rules for Woodhens" but that was that.  Anyway, at least that's one Lord Howe Island creature I can cross off my life list. G: As we were sitting we heard this strange bird cry that ended with a hiccup ...

Snorkelling!
Jul 7, 2007 (11 photos)

... want to see some birds.  It's past Milky Way where we ate last night (itself right at the end of one of the island roads) and starts out between a cow paddock and a pretty beach but soon passes into a very steep and rather slippery forest with endless ...

Glass bottomed boat ride and birds
Jul 8, 2007 (13 photos)

... branch or whatever without giving that feeling of being in a forest.  I saw a couple of stunning examples in a book on Lord Howe Island and I suspect it would take a ND filter and tripod to even begin to get what I'd like - but certainly low light ...

To sea me harties
Mar 8, 2007 (5 photos)

Set of from Aussie mainlandin fair weather, motor sailed the 400 odd miles to Lord Howe Island. Learnt 2 things, 1. gentlemen dont go to weather and 2. cats hurt!!! Not terrible seas, but they just crack like a train between the hulls so sleep is erratic ...

Paradise in the Pacific
Apr 20, 2008 (20 photos)

12 months ago, I hardly knew anything about Lord Howe Island.  I'd heard of it, sure, but I had no idea where it was - I imagined it to be somewhere far off the coast of Western Australia - and I didn't really have a clue as to what was there. Then ...

Third day
Jul 6, 2007 (6 photos)

... We went home the long way so we could get an ice cream from Thompson's Store and then spent the afternoon reading about Lord Howe Island and doing our washing so that we could hang it outside in time for the afternoon squalls.  One came on so suddenly ...

Last day
Jul 10, 2007 (16 photos)

... where there was a most beautiful long table made out of a slab of Norfolk Pine (which we now know is a dreadful weed on Lord Howe Island because it changes the pH of the soil and crowds out the native vegetation but they can't declare it a "noxious weed" ...