Hi folks, happy New Year! We are posting from Collie, Australia on Jan 1, 2025, November 3rd, Day 26, Tasmania Arrived in Devonport,...

Hi folks, we find ourselves leaving Australia in about a week and frantically catching up on the blog, here is New Zealand South Island...

October 12th Day 4, New Zealand Woke up on Tiritiri after staying up the night before to look for penguins, tuatara (a prehistoric...

This part of the trip was planned starting with just a week in the north island, then we added a week in the south island, then another...

The waters off Auckland are quite different from what we are used to in the Puget Sound. We saw no kelp, very few water birds and no...

After about 18 months of planning we have finally started, currently in the midst of a 6 hour layover in LA before our first stop in New...