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Aunty Sues for dinner
One of the very nice things we found in Lord Howe was the number of small quite nice restaurants serving extremely good meals from modern menus of nouveau Australian and Mediterranean style food. Aunty Sues is up on a hill on Anderson Road. It is an open-timber structure, with decking and enormous wall to ceiling…
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Snorkelling at North Beach
Today was a lazy day we only snorkelled for an hour, walked for two hours and biked about ten kilometres. We went to North Beach by boat with a nice young guy called Peter. Peter had been on the island about six and a half years and was an experienced diving instructor. He took us…
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Ned’s Beach
We rode to Ned’s beach and snorkelled. The snorkelling was amazing as we moved in and around schools of enormous fish. We stood on the edge of the beach here and hand feed the fish at our feet. The sea boiled with fish as the entire process took on a feeding frenzy feel about it,…
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St Patrick’s Day
Today was meant to be Mt Gower day; however we woke up at 5am in the morning to the sound of heavy rain on the tin roof of our little motel room, it continued to rain until just after 9am. At the south of the island they had three inches of rain and to the…
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Ron’s cruise around the island
Ron from the ramble turned up at our cabin at 8:30 to tell us he was running another of his cruises around the island at 10:30. It was another perfect day on Lord Howe Island. The cruise was great, the cliffs of Mt Gower were awesome as bounced underneath them. I had some sobering moments…