South Seas

... . We begin with friends in Namibia and will be exploring wildlife reserves and national parks for 2 weeks before touring around Cape Town, South Africa for 5 days. Next we fly to Cairo, Egypt where Dave will be my tourguide for 2 weeks since he is old ...

Journey to the South Seas Sunday 7 Nov Bogota Airport seems just as chaotic and overcrowded as before. Instead of passing directly into the transit lounge, we wait in a very slow moving queue, the reason for which is not immediately obvious.  It ...

Today was our final day on the south seas and then we are back in Sydney for the day. It was a lazy day.  We started it off with our normal room service breakfast and then Asher went to Camp Hal and I prowled the ship for a while.  Everyone was ...

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... to get underway.  We got some great photos as we left Australia and headed North East to our first destination in the South Pacific, Bora Bora – something like 5,000 kms away. Dinner tonight is designated as “casual” (there are 3 ...

... zodiacs (motorized pontoon boats) that would take us to shore. We landed at Half Moon Island, just south of Livingstone Island. Hopping out into the freezing seas (we were required to wear waterproof outerwear and 14" high rubber boots at all times, ...

... jobs to work on here and may stay a while or still may head off Friday as that is another good weather window to head south. (another over nighter about the same time frame) We may hire a car and go sightseeing yet though. We are both feeling much more ...

... vineyards - the train ran alongside the Montan vineyard for quite a while. Christchurch is the largest city in the south island; it originated as a Church of England settlement modelled on 19th century English society. Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), I ...

... attacking sparrows whilst  I eat my breafast. Sunshine attempting to break through clouds but stormy clouds hovering around south eastern horizon. Have taken a good look around Merimbula; found internet cafe caught up on some e-mails, Found people ...

... horrid concrete jetty where we had been tied for almost a week, and headed out of Portland just before 6 am.    The seas had stopped crashing over the wall, but we had listened to the wind blowing all night and although determined to get ...

... to the captain's confirmation that we were in the middle of the Drake Passage and continuing to make our way south toward Elephant Island.  Seas were described as rough and the temperature outside had dropped to the mid-40s.   The Drake ...

Waking early to very quiet seas and wind we weigh anchor at 0530 for our day sail to the northern extreme of mainland Philippines. For some 5 hours the sea is calm and we relax on board, enjoying the peace and calm of the day. With the sails set there is ...

... he had nothing better to do so he'd join me on the two day walk and then he bumped in to Ivan, who he'd met hitching further south, and Ivan also decided to come along, so at 8am the next morning we set off from Nelson. We started the track at about ...

... playing in the bubbles and, sure enough, they did.  It was a beautiful day out there - 26 degrees.  Scarlet said she calls it "adventure on the low seas", because the water is so shallow in the canal.  It was a 10 out of 10 day.  :o) ...

... a series of rocks, so that from where we sat we could just see perfect deserted beaches round the corner, and blue blue seas on both sides of us.  And it was completely deserted apart from the penguin footprints and odd sea bird.  We ...

... (which used to be a telephone exchange) for 3 nights. But alas, Mother Nature did not want me to see whales, sending very rough seas (waves over 5 meters in height) and even a snow storm yesterday (25th July, 6 months until Christmas) so all 3 attempts to ...

... towns having their own schools, community centers, churches and housing). Unfortunately, the apartheid policies of the past South African government left a horrible legacy for many of the blacks living in these areas. During apartheid, residents of the ...

... awhile, not really finding anything I desperately needed so I went out the back side to see what else I could find. I found the South African Maritime Museum and decided to check it out, since maritime is definitely right up my alley. It was R10 to get ...

... was sea-kayaking for 5 hours along the Abel Tasman National Park coast. The morning got off to an ominous start with a stiff South-Easter creating 1 to 3 meter swells in a normally mirror flat bay. We got onto a water taxi in a parking lot.....yes, it ...