Lorhiti Apartments Lord Howe Island

... it was incredible!!! We jumped out and as soon as I look in the water, I saw hundreds of fish, whole schools of different kinds of them, huge doubleheaders, parrot fish (that are rainbow colored), bluefish, angel fish, and so many other kinds. The coral is so big and so many different colors too - purple, blue, green. It was a little creepy, because I also saw three huge Galapagos sharks circling under the boat. Dean told ...

Greetings from Lord Howe Island! Today we flew from Sydney to this island, which some people say is the most beautiful island in the whole Pacific Ocean. It is a pretty small island, only 11km long but it has big mountains and is very green with big trees. It kind of feels like Ireland because it is so green except there are beautiful sandy beaches, the water is warm and aquamarine and it is hot. The landing strip is very small so it felt like ...

... around every corner, and opportunities to get close to huge colonies of nesting seabirds, who didn't seem at all fazed about the presence of curious humans. Under the water too, Lord Howe is incredible. I could walk just a few steps off the beach in some places, and be snorkelling amongst vibrantly-coloured corals teeming with fish and creatures I'd never even seen before - it rivalled anything I saw on the Great Barrier reef in FNQ, and was so ...

... but when we got up, the weather looked good. M: Anyway, we woke to a lovely morning and were just having a cup of coffee to get ourselves going when we heard an odd and very loud birdcall from just under our deck. "Probably a bloody Woodhen at last!" I sighed - we've been searching all over for the damn things - and sure enough, that's what it was!! It was an unusual call, obviously designed to be very ...

... have been anything between about 18 and 28 who reminded us so of Kathleen Clayton - someone who had spent far too much time in the company of her parents than is good for a youngster. She was snorkelling for the first time and was behaving as if she was about to snow-board off K2 or something, saying, ''one should try everything once!" Anyway she was ecstatic about the experience, just sitting saying, "that was ...

... are indescribable. And they appear quite unafraid. Some come close to check you out and then swim placidly on, others just cock an interested eye and ignore you as you pass over. Something that's quite nice is that they all fit in with the rhythm of the waves going in and out, and swim when the water is drawing them the way they want to go, and just hold when it's going the other way - and you can ...

... G: A day of gusting wind, so we stayed in until ready for a long walk. Mandi had slept ok, but her head is full of snot, so wasn't feeling great. It started to rain as we rested on the way to the Clear Place Point and she started to cry quietly - poor girl. I was all for going back, but she bravely went on and we sheltered in a Bunyan Fig forest. These are really amazing trees with their multiple trunks and ...

... if we'd had more. G: After a cup of coffee we made our slow way down to Ned's beach. I was a bit sceptical about feeding the fish, but as we stood with the little waves just running over our feet, we could see thrashings of large King Fish, some more that a metre long as well as schools of smaller sand coloured species. The thrashing turned to a frenzy as we started to throw bread into the water. It was more ...

... stopping to browse through a small cemetery. They didn't die young here 100 years ago - obviously the climate was as good then as it is now. Stopped to watch a light plane take off which was fun as there were guys across from each other about half way down the runway, monitoring the takeoff, I wonder why? Tried to take photos of kingfisher type birds on the fence, but they were just too shy. I then took the path up to Blinky ...

... back of a bus although the middle one of the five was marked "crew only" and even so wasn't used by the single hostie (I think she must've taken off and landed in the cockpit as there was no-where else) so Gray had an empty seat beside him. The other two were occupied by a young mum and a very cross toddler called Wilson. Wilson alternated between coughing copiously, howling when strapped in (despite a ...