Hello! This is my last blog for California. I'm flying from LAX tonight and will be arriving in Sydney on Monday morning (i'm time-travelling too, skipping a day). No doubt i'll be bleary eyed and confused when I reach Sydney, it's a long flight with a change in Auckland. I may even get bleary eyed by the red dust - hopefully everything will still go according to plan with the flights. On Thursday Perry took me to Venice Beach, which is famous for being a bit ...

It's been a good week, i've seen lots of fantastic wildlife and a completely different part of California. Last week, on Wednesday, I went on a whale watching trip with Jackie, Scott & Scott's girlfriend Natalie. The boat set off from Long Beach, right outside the Aquarium. At this time of the year there are Blue Whales that swim past Long Beach and that was what the boat was hoping to find. It isn't a guarantee that you see them but I was so hopeful because...

Hello again, I've been very busy sight seeing since my first blog entry. However i've got a lot of spare time today so thought i'd type it all up before I get things jumbled up in my mind! The first thing to report is that Wendal doesn't seem to mind me as much. He is currently sitting next to me and when it's just me that's around, he'll sit near me, which I take as a compliment. He will only bark for 2 seconds when I appear in the morning and only growls once...

Hello! Welcome to my first blog entry! Well I arrived in L.A. on Monday evening, however it was around 4am back home, so it had been a long day. Flight was OK - had an empty seat next to me which was a bonus! The woman who was on the seat next to that was great - she was going to Fiji for a family wedding and had been to New Zealand, so started telling me about the skydive she did recently. She's in her seventies and the video of her skydive is on YouTube! Aweso...