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Christmas Island
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Christmas island stopover
This is a top pick! ... lounge consisted of a shed !! probably as big as your garden one !! and had a hand painted sign saying "welcome to Christmas island" Colin wanted to get off the plane, but......not allowed. Not sure what would have happened if the ...
Have you heard of Christmas Island?
... spotted the island on Dec. 24, 1777, Christmas Island or Kiribati is a mere 1,300 miles south of Hawaii. The people of Christmas Island are Micronesian and originally came from the Gilbert Islands about 2,000 miles west. The total pop. is 3,300. There ...
Spawning part 2 and Hosnie Springs
Another amazing morning of crab spawnings - we reckoned about 1 million crabs on the beach, slightly less crowded than Ethel and you could see each crab dance and spray their eggs into the water as the waves came. We also saw crabs drop their eggs from ...
On n'est pas attendu / We're not expected
... First time I see so much water. I hope I remember how to swim. What a blue!Our arrival on that little volcanic island surprises everybody. They have only one flight per week and it's not today. Everybody welcomes us warmly and seems enthousiastic for our ...
Red Crab update: the babies return
For those of you who have been following the red crabs, our friend Karen, who lives on Christmas Island (and moved there to see the crabs!) just posted some photos of the baby crabs returning (which is great news, as they don't necessarily come back every ...
Nothing to write home about, but I did it anyhow.
... never even considered as a hobby. Frankly, I can't think of something that would bore me more; however, sending a post card from Christmas Island is apparently the greatest novelty of all. I'm not sure why, but it has something to do with them being ...
The Great Spawning
... The eggs hatch almost instantly, spend a month at sea as larvae turning into mini crabs, and somehow make their way back to the island and begin the long journey back inland to the forest where they hide and grow and after 4 years are mature enough to ...
Christmas Already?
Wednesday 19 November Close to Christmas Island S 10° 02.9' E 106° 00.0' Managed the morning walk this time, ...
Crabs, crabs and more crabs
No red carpet of crabs to greet us upon arrival in Christmas Island but none the less plenty of crabs to see. The crabs have done their downward migration to the sea and mated. The females are now in burrows incubating their eggs and awaiting the high ...
The Life Aquatic and crab attacks
Christmas Island is an old volcano with limestone coral terraces that quickly drop off and make their way at steeply down to 5,000m in the Java trench, into which the island is in fact gradually falling. The diving is mind-blowing with stunning coral ...
LIFE ON BOARD THE DIAMOND PRINCESS
This is a typicall "at sea" day on board the ship. Some mornings I start the day with hot tub, sauna and then breakfast. This morning I skipped the hot tub and sauna to check emails. After breakfast I went to a lecture entitled "Paradise ...
Revisiting my place of birth....................!!
... The big thing is a new AUD 250-300m detention centre for asylum seekers being built and a Navy frigate permanently circles the Island all year round now (to deter boats??). Obviously the Islanders are lobbying furiously to halt/reduce the building but to ...
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... waikiki beach so crowded to be expected one day is not enough time to take it all in but yes i did enjoy the day xmas island we had to go by tenda to get to the island if you were not sure footed it was a no go if only we had a ...
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... waikiki beach so crowded to be expected one day is not enough time to take it all in but yes i did enjoy the day xmas island we had to go by tenda to get to the island if you were not sure footed it was a no go if only we had a ...
Pulabuhan Ratu - Again
I went again on the start of the long Lebaran weekend Jkt-Ciawi via Jagorawi toll road 44 km, 30 mins Ciawi-Cicurug-Cibadak 30 km, 60 mins Cicurug-Cibadak 12 km, 30 mins Cibadak - Cikidang 20 km, 40 mins Cikidang - Pl Ratu 20 km, 45 ...
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... christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on the christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on the christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on the christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on ...
Blast off!
Spider and i sat in the rocket we were very excited... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 ,1 BLAST OFF! As exciting as it was nothing else happened but the view was amazing! watching the earth, a planet i barely knew, dissappearing beneath ...
Prudence- The Flight Attdent
Prudence is our flight addented. She smiles a lot and always looks gleeful but she is really quite ...
And now for something completely different
Coming in for the landing yesterday, I immediately saw that Christmas Island was very different than the Cocos Islands. First of all, it's much bigger – the total land mass is about 93 square kilometers. Second of all, it’s a volcano, ...
Safe and enjoying Christmas Island
... of the form and it was sent back quickly. So all was in order for the next leg. Christmas Island is a fisherman's paradise. Apparently a good day of bone fishing is over 50 fish something almost unheard of in the ...
Day 2 of the Tramp
... da es ziemlich Achterbahnmaessig rauf und runter, rauf und runter, rauf und runter ging. Schliesslich erreichte ich aber doch die Christmas Village Hut, nicht ganz zu Weihnachten... Die Huette hatte 12 Bunks, wir waren zu 11 dort. Die Huette liegt erneut ...
Crabs!
... the crabs and once to tend to a patient...as you can imagine, I was tired and a little, excuse the pun, crabby. The Christmas Island Red Crab Migration is one of the most famous migrations in the world. The crabs (there's estimated to be about 4 ...
“Did you tell your uncle Gerard about me?
... , it’s been a year and a half since we had that conversation and in all that time I haven’t once seen her about on Island, so she’s got one hell of a memory and a gift for recognising people. Secondly, I’ve no idea how to respond, ...
The torture continues!!
The plan was to have a shower and then head for a realxing Tibetan massage, but waht we didn't realise is that it's just Tibetan code for torture!! 70 minutes of being pummelled, elbowed, slapped, pulled is not what i call realxing. Every time Debs or ...
Now2
... christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on the christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on the christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on the christmas island now... it's awsome ;) hello there! i am on ...
Hard to find words
... and I hope to never see another. I remain whole-heartedly impressed with the rescue efforts of the people on Christmas Island -- the volunteers and the professionals. Everyone who survived, survived because of the actions of people on the ...
Christmas Island: scuba, birds & crabs
... there. More relevant, this was a holiday with Callum and Sarah - a chilled week of chatting, drinking, diving and exploring the island. Not your typical holiday destination - little by way of facilities and not many beaches but it had a certain charm. ...
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