Blue Wave

Faded blue jeans, white t-shirt, aviators, and his signature trademark - thong sandals. Enter stage look left, look right, and look left again and nod...(More pulp fiction music)

... many of them) all the way up to the lighthouse. We had gone out prepared for rain for some reason and were greeted by perfect blue skies. The views were amazing - the beaches seemed virtually empty. Sat on one of them I decided it was too hot and although ...

Second stop in the blue mountains, in the more touristy bit, where everyone comes to take pictures of some 'sisters' (rocks).  Did a walk around some more big gorge action, over a waterfall or two, under a rainbow and up a wet bit of rainforesty ...

... for dinner, we watched a bit of telly and hit the sack.   Monday 26th March Curses. Katoomba, our residence in the Blue Mountains, is in a cloud. A big cloud. Undaunted we headed off for a walk down the Giant Staircase at Echo Point, along the ...

... the rest of the crowd. I think people stopped watching the game for minutes at a time. Especially during the very impressive Mexican wave that made its way around the ground for a good half hour. In the end Australia predictably made a fight of it ...

... to work. The girls are thrilled; all are paying attention. With no boys around they're all happy, open and smiling as we wave our colourful underwear around the room and I can hardly hold back the tears at the thought of just how much such a simple ...

Following a leisurly amble around the Blue Lake we moved on to the Redwood Forest with it's 90 year old Doughlas Firs. This area is famous for its walk and cycle tracks  - such calm and cool surroundings .There is a tradition in NZ that the Kixi's ...

I bet that got your attention! Last night we all went to Big Wave Dave's first "Blue's night" If you haven't been following this blog, Big Wave Dave's is a very popular bar/restaurant just off the beach here in San Juan del Sur. Dave moved here to ...

... or sciatic leg to jump up. As we all headed into the water for more practise, Nikki contented herself with further wave catching practise. We were both becoming more confident and Paul was ocassionally able to half stand up before crashing back into ...

... shacks, small concrete rooms and wooden animal shelters. Everyone is standing at their doors looking inquisitively at us, a smile and a wave always results in a smile and a wave back. Cows wander around apparently without owner or purpose. We are taken ...

... is lifted by the crashing wave. He would let go just before and then yell when it was time to push into a standing position. My first wave was a big success; I nearly got to my feet and managed to ride the wave all the way in (which isn't that far- these ...

... diving enthusiasts that we are, we had no choice but to part with an excruciating amount of money and dive the notoriously renowned "Blue Hole" of Caye Caulker, Belize. Divers from all around the world stream to Caye Caulker just to add this dive to their ...

... pain in my ankle, but I suck it up.  Shaun starts to gear up and Dena and I are not surprised that his suit is blue.  I ask him what the little grippy things are that are on his suit and were on ours.  He said they are for different aerial ...

... hiked to the top of a ridge overlooking the mirror-like surface of Neko Harbour, which is ringed by a colossal frozen wave of blue ice that periodically calves into the harbour. Afterward, I stood with fellow Adventurer Tink McTaggart and watched a group ...

... right by us, so close I could nudge them with my foot. Although it is difficult to be certain in the darkness, their backs appear blue-black and their bellies more grey than white. They are so small, maybe 25 cm. And then they are gone. Later, Brian ...

... . The other 2 kayaks also flipped on their way in, and when they arrived, they were all worried about me because I looked blue.  Actually, I was so cold that Carsten and I decided to extend faith week which we recently finished, and we asked God to ...

... our destination. A couple of hours later, after some more dirt roads (these ones were open and in fair condition), we arrived at Wave Rock, near Hyden. This natural wonder is a 15-metre high, 100+-metre long granite formation. But there is more to the ...

... coral, home to thousands more fish, and once our bread supply was exhausted we were stalked by schools of hungry fish. The Blue Lagoon certainly looked a picture from above the surface but we didn't expect the sub-surface view to be just as fabulous, and ...

... in name only, the half mile crescent is composed of red, green, amber and brown rocks that were naturally polished by the water's wave action.  A fabulous place for rock hounds, namely Ellen, Audrey and Rusty.  It was a nice quiet place for a ...

... whitest, powdery sand with a backdrop of rainforest vegetation and coconut trees and in front the water was crystal clear with a blue lagoon separating other surrounding islands - as a matter of fact, this island became popular after the movie "The Blue ...

... park for lunch. While I was waiting for Dion and Lachy to come back from the shop and Brit was playing on the playground, a blue-tongue walked out of one garden about 5 metres away and then into another one that would have been much cooler. We then set ...