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Begs the question tho, what did they do while hiking together?
That place I've pretty consistently caught fish. I haven't been down there in a long time though.
Back in the day it seems lots of jazzfanz members used to hang out. I think I've met about 30 people from the board. I liked most of them... I do have a few wild stories about some of them that aren't for the message board. One Australian in particular that doesn't post anymore got wild. Some of our best posters are gone.
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Me too. Not a ton of fish and rarely very big fish but I always catch some.
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Ya I think I meet like 30 or so as well and also have some stories. Good times
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This is somewhat of a silly question. At some point, my wife and I will hit Antarctica. We don't anticipate this will be for quite some time, however, because of the amount of time it would take and having kids at home and such. By extension of that, we'd only need to see Australia for all 7 continents, which is more of a novelty, I'll admit. We'll hit New Zealand at some point for sure. It's harder to make a compelling reason to have Australia higher up on the list. No offense to the Aussies, and part of posting this to maybe get a bit more info. I'd actually love to visit Australia. But with its distance and cost, there are so many places that would be high on our list, so it's no specific slight to down under. Looking at it, though, the only continent that my wife and I have been to that our kids haven't is Africa, and between places like Egypt, Morocco or Tanzania that are definitely on our "opportunistic" list, where we'd jump on it if we found a good deal. My oldest is 16 and a half and our youngest turns 7 in two weeks. Antarctica would be a huge PITA to take a family (or even to not take a family) but hypothetically, it would seem cool to me when I'm on my death bed to be able to look back and know we'd been together as a family on all continents. That last one would obviously be something we'd have to wait until a number of them are probably well into adulthood (which if they have families of their own may make it more complicated). Anyhow, this very hypothetical idea would require us to get our kids to Australia without a huge compelling reason. Fiji Airways often runs pretty decent deals periodically on flights, and they have a similar "stop-over" program like Iceland Air does. Fiji with AirBnb and food prices overall is quite cheap, much cheaper than many other alternatives in terms of a tropical vacation. So the question becomes, if one goes to Fiji, and you're already that close to Australia, would it be stupid to tack on a very short stay (2-3 days) where you're likely in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne, or is that just trying to be too cute and just be more relaxed and save the money in Fiji. My brain definitely tells me the latter but my heart is looking for justification of the former.
A mate of mine just got back from Fiji, its not that cheap is you're staying in resorts, which I would recommend, they've got some significant social issues in the countryside at the moment.
The flight from Fiji is not long 4 or 5 hours. Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are all fun for a weekend, three very different vibes, Melbourne is culture and food, Sydney is the harbour and beaches, Brisbane is the weather and nightlife. (I have the inside news that Melbourne may soon have its own Disneyland, Disney has recently bought a significant site in the docklands region and is buying apartments in the area, they are either building an amusement park or a studio, my word is its a park.) and the flights shouldn't be too taxing, I think Qantas and United fly direct to LA from Sydney.
I would do Australasia in 6 weeks, 2 weeks in NZ driving North to South, 4 weeks in Australia, start in Melbourne, do 3 or 4 days of sight seeing in Melbourne, get your timing right and you can take in an AFL game at the G, visit the goldfields, then drive the great ocean road to Adelaide, visit Hahndorf and the Barossa Valley, then either fly or drive to to Alice Springs (Alice Springs can be pretty dodgy at night) check out Uluru. From there fly to Sydney, again 3 or 4 days to take in the sights. From there fly to Byron Bay, rent a car and drive to Brisbane via the Gold Coast, somewhere along that drive you will find somewhere to take in a great barrier reef tour. And maybe finish off with a few days rest in the Whitsundays before you head home. Also if you have the time squeeze in a visit to Tasmania, Hobart is a cool little city.
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I definitely don't have weeks to be there. Because of the nature of my work, like 10 days is pushing it on how long I can be gone. This fall I'll be gone for over two weeks which will be interesting, but yeah it's typically 7-10 days. A Fiji/Australia would have to come in at under 14 days... maybe right on it depending on weekends. Who knows.
I don't think I'd be prepared to spend two days sitting on a plane for two weeks here, cause at the end of the day its not enough and you'll end up killing yourself trying to squeeze as much in as possible to make it worthwhile. I got the travel bug off my folks and we would do short holidays when i was young locally, you know everyone in the van and we'd drive to Adelaide or Sydney or would holiday in our state. As i got older and we had a bit more money our first big OS holiday was to the US and Canada in 91. I was 8 years old and it is still is one of the best holidays I've been on. Seeing Topol on Broadway do Fiddler on the Roof for my parents 10th wedding anniversary, Niagara falls, Disneyland and Disneyworld, the first time seeing the Smithsonian, the national parks on the west coast, the lights of Vegas. I can still remember it now.
That basically became the model for our family holidays, every 2 or 3 years we'd take generally 3 months and go to Europe or the US and see as much as we could. We'd also see and stay with family in Europe (and they'd stay with us when they'd come here) my parents attitude was if you're going all that way you might as well stay for a while. We'd also do short trips in the off years to Malaysia or Thailand or New Zealand for a week or two, later in life my parents loved going on cruises. (I hate them I feel like its a floating prison.) Their template has basically become mine, I tend to like long holidays 2 to 3 months, I suppose the difference is where I go and why. I tend to combine my tourism with watching sport and taking in somewhat different sights to my folks, (I don't do churches) but i do museums, galleries, battlefields historical sights, I also don't do organised tours, I prefer to do it at my own at my own speed, if I like a place I can stay there for an extra couple of hours or days and explore. As a family we used to do bus tours and they were great the guides were great and knowledgeable and you'd take an awful lot in in a short time but you're attached to their schedule and I always kinda hated that.
I've seen adds here for the Antarctic cruises, they're about 15k which seems reasonable. I really want to do the Canada and Alaska cruise, mostly because my folks always wanted to do it and weren't able to because of ill health.
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