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The Eden Project – Mixing it up

A model of a large ocean cargo liner arches over the entry to the Eden Project Rainforest Biome

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Oz to UK – QM2 Half World Cruise

QM2 in Sydney harbour waiting to dock at the Ocean terminal

March – April 2023

Part 1 – Leaving – Melbourne – Sydney – Melbourne

QM2 flies the Red Ensign - Union Jack, white stripe by the mast signifies peace and the red duster to the right is valour and courage - and the Sydney Opera House

Part 2 – Down under Australia – KI, SA, WA

Aussie bush band welcomes QM2

Part 3 – From sea to island hopping (Mauritus & Reunion)

Aube sur le département de la Réunion - QM2

Part 4 – South Africa and UP

The author examines a sand dune near Walvis Bay

Part 5 – Land ahoy!

Engines turned off and smoke clear chimney on QM2 docked at Southhampton April 2023

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Overland travel from UK to NZ

September – November 2019

Anchor chain CC Coral

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Overland travel NZ

November – January 2019

On the TranzAlpine from Picton station

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Overland travel Australia

January – February 2019

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Camino de Santiago

June – July 2019

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More shipping news – NZ to Oz – Tauranga to Brisbane – Ontario II

Is this a rata or a pohutakawa on Mount Maunganui?
Anyone know if this is a rata or a pohutakawa on Mount Maunganui? Big, isn’t it?

All in all I spent three months in New Zealand, seeing friends, family and reinforcing memories. I found the experience, although unplanned, grounding. As a person in transition it was helpful to look back and see the schools and the university I attended, plus workplaces where I’d wielded rakes and scythes, mixed mercury into lead for fillings and shelved books into the evening. I was a passenger in buses, private cars and taxis, ferries and I drove my own 15 ton digger. Still digesting my Kiwi experience, it was time to head back to Australia to see my son in his native habitat. And, OF COURSE, I would not be flying!

Passenger number two beside my second container ship docked at Port Tauranga
Passenger number two beside my second container ship docked at Port Tauranga
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