As the plane zoomed along the runway and took off into the stormy looking sky, I felt quite sad to be leaving New Zealand. Throughout our 3 weeks exploring the north and south islands, I’ve seen so many beautiful places and done so many incredible things that it was quite hard to say good bye … More Leaving Middle Earth
I was very excited for today as we were finally leaving built up Brisbane for Hervey Bay, the place renowned for it’s humpback whale visitors. Although we were visiting towards the end of the whale season, I was optimistic that we’d see some and I was really, really excited to go out on a boat … More Bound for Hervey Bay
With it being our last night at Base Brisbane Central last night, rather than hang around there whilst we waited for the bank and medicare things to be sorted we decided to try our luck in another hostel and see if that was any better. Annoyingly due to rugby being on in the city, many … More From Base Central to Base Embassy
We’d arrived in Brisbane and the first thing we need to do was get through immigration and customs. On the flight there’d be a few films telling us what we weren’t allowed to bring into the country but after watching lots of episodes of ‘Border Control’, we already knew. We’d got rid of the food … More Border Control, Base and Bridges in Brisbane
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