Good Old Chinwagging

Category: Journals

  • Christmas Island for Christmas

    Christmas Island for Christmas

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    vherring
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    The reason for travelling to Christmas Island at Christmas is to see the red crab migration, it hadn’t occurred to me to study this in any great detail before leaving and so I wasn’t really sure what to expect.   If I was honest , I was probably hoping for a bit of a fishing…

  • So this is Korea

    So this is Korea

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    by

    vherring
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    The ride from the airport to the Holiday Inn was very interesting. My driver would drive up behind other cars in his lane at about 110 Kilometres and then turn on his hazard lights and headlights and flash them until the car in front would move over. I never understood why, but it helped move…

  • 20120808 POM Arrival

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    vherring
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    he hop from Cairns to Port Moresby is quite short. I always imagined PNG to be a wet, a hot steamy and stormy jungle sort of a climate but coming in to Port Moresby it appeared the complete opposite. The country side is dry and the grasses and bushes appear as if a big bush…

  • Jungle Wedding

    Jungle Wedding

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    vherring
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    Staying in the resort was a couple from Japan, they were on their honeymoon and had asked if it was possible to go through a local wedding ceremony, and the resort obliged. The resort had done  nothing like this before. They invited the entire guest list to the ceremony pool side at approximately two in…

  • Leaping fish of Madang

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    vherring
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    Beneath this layer is a marine wonder world of reef fish in bright blues, yellow, black and white like a zebra, and long grey fish like garfish. Looking intently more and more wonderful fish appear right below deck in the mottling of the moving lagoon.