It was a long trek up to Agnes Waters and the unimaginately named town of 1770. James Cook landed in 1770 on year of 1770 hence its name, but that seems like a poor justification for a town name. It took 7 hours to drive from Brisbane, 1.5 hours longer than usual due to the [...]
Jan 052011
Dec 222010
All the photos I’ve taken in the past while are up. Brisbane Sydney Auckland Wellington Wellington to Christchurch Queenstown I’m back in Brisbane now after a fantastic journey through New Zealand. On the 24th of december we head off to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia and then the day after to Beijing, China.
Dec 122010
Well, I did not get to spend that much time in Sydney. About one and a half days. Sydney is clearly a superior city to Brisbane. It’s bigger, more culturally diverse, and far more active. The flight from Brisbane to Sydney on Virgin Air was ok. The flight was delayed by 30 minutes which meant [...]
Bad sun screen and bad sun screen practices have turned me into a giant red canadian after swimming/floating in the pacific ocean all day on the beaches of Waiheke Island in New Zealand. I’ll post more about Sydney and Auckland later.
Dec 082010
So the first two days of Brisbane are complete. Day 1 was spent doing laundry, errands, and exploring the main urban park. And what a park it is. I’m sure that if I lived here, I wouldn’t think anything of it. But I don’t live here, so I was blown away by the vastly different [...]
