Down under with no plunder: We meet again my waning following, how nice of you all to join me on this fine evening, and welcome to Australia, home of many animals, fish, insects and other things which want to kill me and anyone in their way. As you may have guessed from reading this I am still currently alive, but there is still all to play for. But more on my death later, if something befalls me I'm sure you will all be informed in due course and I cant help...

An unexpected addition: I thought I may as well leave you with some parting thoughts of New Zealand just to wrap this whole lot up. Let's start with the driving. In comparison to america it is rather different. The pluses: you are on the correct side of the road. We had a manual which is faer preferred to an auto. The roads have bends in them from time to time rather than endless dreary straight lines. The negatives: they use kilometers an hour. The only due...

Hey all. Sorry not to finish this sooner but been busy/lazy, I have things to do you know, important man perhaps. I'm not, but you never know. I'm currently sat in a slightly eerie roadside overnight camp site on the outskirts of Rockhampton in OZ with far too many caravans that probably aren't adverse to a mild bit of dogging at the weekends,but more on OZ later, for now, the final of New Zealand. After the immense skydive we continued down south still fol...

So soon yet I'm back. Hello and welcome once more, since I have a bit of free time and am currently sat in a nice warm common area on a rather comfortable sofa I thought I might sit back and finish off the end of the north island, so I will. I left you all in Rotorua, a fascinating place. Huge amounts of thermal activity including some of new Zealand youngest volcanoes and wotnot. Hot springs, massive smoking lakes, boiling mud, all number of interesting thin...

Hi few, Welcome once more to my life. As you should mostly all know by now I have finally moved out of Auckland. 6 months working 2 jobs (1 as tech support an 1 as housekeeping, neither enjoyable by the end) funds are somewhat restored and on the move again. We started with a trip up north to 90 mile beach which, though is a nice beach, it is just a beach. Then down to bay of islands. This looked very nice but didn't have time or money to rent a boat to see ...