Mounts Bay Waters

... the next 5 minutes we must have been hit or been hit by at least 5 other junks such was the erratic exit to quieter waters. Our group was a very good group, most were Australians, not a yobbo amongst them. There were people from Cairns, Canberra, ...

... , over-arch the streets. Some times a dissecting road that disappears into a valley below provides views across other neighbourhoods and bay waters. When within the hill community, it’s easy to feel that your small community is all that exists. One ...

... . Before enjoying a delicious seafood meal prepared by Luong, we had a funny 2 hour session of kayaking in the bay, around kartic mounts and floating villages (an incredible way of life made essentially made from fishing and sea conditions!!) In the ...

... iguanas and they did not disappoint at all.  Before heading back to the boat it was time for another swim in the waters cold enough to be shared with the penguins, as they bobbed around amongst the excited tourists. In the afternoon we visited Punta ...

... an elephant until you’re sitting bareback, wearing nothing but a bathing suit and sliding down a slick mud path into the waters of a passing river.  The "bathing" wasn’t so much bathing as it was playtime for the elephants and their ...

... year between K's best friend Maggie (Maggie Thelen), and her sweetheart Stefan (Stefan Ziolkowski). A wedding set against tranquil waters and forested mounts. A wedding immersed in love by two families not only large at heart but in size. A wedding ...

... . My heart full of this remarkable life affirming experience. I did it. I rode 400 kilometers across Namibian desert, to touch the waters of the Atlantic Coast. Exhausted, and covered in dirt and dust, we rode in the trucks as Naftalie and Sarah ...

... our I-68s. For our non-cruising friends, an I-68 is a permit you obtain at immigration to cruise in U.S. waters. We drove/crawled (remember this was Sunday evening traffic returning from cottage country) across the international bridge, filled out all ...

... , and 100+km long, particularly in the Southern Alps; and these will be flanked by mountains up to 3,000m; with turquoise blue waters in the lakes!  Even when the landscape isn't so broad, the lack of the horizontal dimension just makes the mountains ...

... climbing slowly to our jump altitude. It's the most scenic place in the world (allegedly) to do a jump - you have views of Mounts Cook and Tasman, the fox glacier, Lake Matheson, lush green fields and then the ocean. The pilot takes us over the glacier, ...

... (last stop Chile) in mesmerising whirlpools, waves and white horses.  All this socialising is done in the most stunning turquoise waters, streaked with what I imagined to be the dark blue of the big powerful ocean.  The mandatory 'how many miles ...

Okay. Firstly, let me admit that I am not entirely sure about what Blog etiquette dictates about starting a new blog without finishing the last one! Let me defend my decision by saying that the rough drafts for the rest of the Chuuk blog are there.. I ...