Off To See The World
Off To See The World
Part 3 – “Repositioning Days” With a fair chunk of miles to Airlie Beach (almost 12 hours – it doesn’t look that far on the map), we’d planned the drive over three days with two overnight stops, in random locations.…
Part 2 – Gold Coast – Sunshine Coast Mermaid Beach – Woke up to rain! It rained all day. Managed to pop out when the sky cleared early afternoon and walked along the beach, however we got caught in a…
Part 1 – Sydney – Gold Coast Gavin Still the 4th collected – a white Subaru Forester – we set off Northbound for our epic 1,500 mile road trip. A very short drive around an hour up the coast for…
The drive to the airport turned in to a short sightseeing trip over the Anzac Bridge, we got lost in the tunnel! Eventually after a short detour via the city, we headed back over the bridge and got back on…
Arrived at the hotel in Sydney and was “slightly” disappointed! The hotel costs over the NY were eye watering, it was a little tired and jaded. Location was great, just opposite Central Station. First full day there, G had booked…
Our planned stop after leaving Manapouri was Dunedin however in true G & M style, we like to make our life complicated. We had talked ourselves in to a three hour detour just to stand on Slope Point. The southernmost…
From Queenstown we continued heading south towards Te Anua. Chosen for it’s proximity to Milford Sound and Manapouri for Doubtful Sound. Te Anua was a good choice to stay and we based ourselves here for two nights. It ’s…
A short flight from Auckland and we were in Christchurch. It was a quick one nighter, as we are heading back to Christchurch for two nights later in the month, before we fly to Sydney. Without any trial we were…
Landed in Auckland a day after leaving Tahiti! We lost a complete day again. We picked up the hire car “Gavin Still” which was a blue Mitsubishi ASX. Note that every car we have hired since 1999 has been called…
A first occurred during this flight! The first time we have crossed the international dateline. Fortunately we realised before the trip or we would have been on the streets of Tahiti for our first night. Flight left Fiji on…