Swimming with sharks. It sounds like fun to me … but only when the sharks don’t want to eat me! Fortunately, in Exmouth each year, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) come in to feed at Ningaloo Reef and they’re not interested in eating anything larger than fish eggs and coral spawn so people can swim with them. [...]
Leaving Melbourne on ANZAC Day, we made it to Horsham on the first night, wondering what we’d let ourselves in for. Although the morning in Melbourne had been pleasant, an enormous rainfront was sweeping through further west so we’d been forced off the road at Ballarat when the windscreen wipers couldn’t keep up. By the [...]
I originally added this post to the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree upon return from Vanuatu but since I’ve received a number of emails from the other Vanuatu information here on this site, I’m adding it here also.
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To assist anyone else possibly planning a trip to Port Vila, here’s a brain dump from our recent travels. Hopefully this [...]
I originally added this post to the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree upon return from Vanuatu but since I’ve received a number of emails from the other Vanuatu information here on this site, I’m adding it here also.
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Having just been on Tanna for 6 days, I thought it might be useful to provide a brain dump of information [...]
It sounds like something out of a book called ‘100 things to do before you die’, but today we managed to stand on the crater rim of a very active volcano and live to tell the tale. Perhaps the book would more appropriately be titled ‘100 things that could cause you to die’?
The reason for [...]
We’ve had Mt Yasur on the ‘must do’ list for a couple of years. The opportunity has arisen to travel there (read: I’ve accumulated too much leave and my workplace has forced me to take leave) so we’re off. Here’s a little inspiration for visiting Mt Yasur, an active volcano on Tanna island - a [...]
One of the Awesomes drank so much last night that she was still rather unwell in the morning. Rather than miss out on the game drive she boarded the truck with everyone else but seemed to forget that the track would be rather bumpy.
Ten minutes into the game drive she was looking decidely unwell. [...]
Still in Tanzania, we managed to end up (against our wishes) trapped for six hours in a 4WD vehicle exploring the Ngorongoro Crater with Zoe (yesterday’s SPOTD) and three girls we referred to as “The Awesomes”. It was a hellish experience, primarily due to the fact that they were incredibly immature 22yo girls who:
had developed [...]
During a game drive in the Serengeti this morning we were delighted to discover a cheetah looking to make a meal out of either a Thomson’s gazelle or a red hartebeest. We stopped the vehicle to watch for a while and the cheetah was singling out a meal from among the many antelope so we [...]
On our tour of Tanzania there was a female Australian named Zoe that, quite frankly, was absurdly stupid. Travelling alone (probably because anyone who met her for more than three minutes would never consider travelling with her), her idea of a fantastic holiday in Africa was to go out on game drives and spot animals. [...]
