Year: 2026
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The Big Swim
One of the pleasures of being at sea is that it can be a positive catalyst to socialising. It’s not a big ship with thousands on board so we often find ourselves sharing a lunch or dinner with other guests and it is the perfect time, over a few drinks, to hear their story. Well…
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Yamdena Island
After a sea day crossing the Timor Sea we have arrived in Yamdena, the largest island in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. Saumlaki, the largest town is on the southern tip of the island. We went to shore on our Xplorers. A colourful wharf. Off to Tumbur. A village some 30 mins away where we…
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Raja Ampat-Four Kings
Where on earth is this place. I confess to never having heard of it before David Attenborough’s Ocean and some information received by the cruising company. It’s an area located off the tip of West Papua, an island archipelago with extraordinary marine biodiversity. The Four Kings refer to four main islands and it is known…
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A weekend in Toowoomba
Friends invited us up for a night of jazz and a lunch at Myrtille the next day. We happily said yes to both and headed to their home in Toowoomba which is a high altitude volcanic plateau at 700 metres above sea level on the edge of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland. It has…
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Australia Day 2026
A woman astronaut and engineer, Catherine Bennell- Pegg is the Australian of the Year. A young man, Nedd Brockmann is the young Australian of the Year, a marathon runner, walking across Australia to raise money for homeless people. Others work to upscale job opportunities for Aboriginal people, they do research into dementia and brain cancer.…
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Drunk as a…
Parrot – Or in Aussie slang “Pissed as a Parrot”. Yup they get drunk too.Not just us dropping off the perch. Pardon the pun – they do too and they have a particular time of year, not far from our celebrations when they just get a little tipsy and wild. Drunk parrots and humans can…
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Choices
Normally I get dropped off at the radio on a Monday morning but C is away on a work trip. I could have driven in but I decided to walk and what a good idea it was. I walked through the Parklands. Soft rain was falling. I took my hat off and felt it on…
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2026- Could be,should be…
A Happy New Year Xmas is over and the New Year is here. It’s time for some reflection of the year that has gone, forming resolutions for the new one, – there are many gleeful ways of breaking them before January is out -and maintaining a level of health and happiness we all wish for.…
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