Day 192 - Weds 16th Sept: 192 Days Later

USA & New Zealand

Australia & Japan
What a trip! Countless memories, a ton of great experiences and a load of new friends (plus some 12,000 photos to sift through).

192 Days Later: done.

Day 161 - Sun 16th Aug: Scooterooing around Agnes Water and 1770

This guy in Agnes Water (Hot Rod, he's got an awesome handlebar moustache) runs this motorbike-kangaroo-watching-tour-thing and you get to ride these bikes around the towns of Agnes Water and 1770 for a couple of hours. Saw some kangaroos and sunset over the ocean, blah, blah, blah. More importantly I got to do some catalogue posing on my bike.

Day 160 - Sat 15th Aug: On an island somewhere in the Whitsundays

Went for a morning walk around one of the islands (can't remember which one) on our last day on Condor. No pure white sand at this beach still an impressive place nonetheless.

Day 149 - Tues 4th Aug: Jungle Surfing, Daintree Rainforest

Still poor weather today, so no chance of a boat trip to the reef so headed to the Daintree Rainforest for some jungle surfing (zip lining through the forest). Don't worry mum, it was all safe. Here's me going upside down. Did you know that the Daintree Rainforest is the world's oldest at 120 million years old (the Amazon's only 40m years old)? FACT!

Day 147 - Sun 2nd Aug: Cape Tribulation

Went up to Cape Tribulation with my friend Anita for a couple of days, so we could go see some of the Great Barrier Reef from there. On our first day we did a bit of sea kayaking - cue overenthusiastic photo posing.

Day 138 - Fri 24th July: Somewhere in the middle of Australia

Quite a bit of our time was spent on the bus today as we continued on our way up to Darwin. Here's a pic of some flowers I found growing by one of the (many) petrol stations we stopped at.

Day 130 - Thurs 16th July: Mount Olsen Bagge, Flinders Ranges

Shock horror! Another picture of me on the blog. Today we did another hike, this time to the top of Mount Olsen Bagge.

Day 126 - Sun 12th July: Boroka Lookout, The Grampians

The weather was still pretty poor, but we thought we'd try one of the lookouts in the Grampians. Couldn't really see much because of the cloud and mist. You could say we 'mist' the views of the Grampians on this trip. Ho-ho-ho.

(Jim - I stole that pun from the old guy at the Hollywood sign when we went there in 2003)

Day 124 - Fri 10th July: The Twelve Apostles

The jewel in the Great Ocean Road's crown - the Twelve Apostles, a series of limestone stacks slowly getting eroded away by the waves. I couldn't quite get the 'postcard' picture as the weather wasn't up to much today. Here's a pic of me with Yuval.

Day 123 - Thurs 9th July: Airleys Inlet, The Great Ocean Road

Another hire car, another road trip. I've hired a car with my friend Yuval and we're driving from Melbourne to Adelaide, taking in the Great Ocean Road along the way. Here's a pic of me by the light house at Airleys Inlet (yes Dad, it's a pic of me in front of the camera for a change!)

Day 54 - Fri 1st May: Abel Tasmin Park and Golden Bay

Hired a car with a few friends and went driving around Abel Tasmin Park and the Golden Bay area (great scenery, pics will be on FlickR one day in the future).

Here's us (l-to-r: Emily, Dan, Jenna, Me) larking around.

I was inspired by this guy: http://runningfromcamera.blogspot.com/

Day 50 - Mon 27th April: Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington

...or The Beehive to give it its unofficial name. It was designed by British architect Sir Basil Spence back in the 60s. It's said that he was stuck for ideas, but at the 11th hour he was inspired by this brand of matches.

Day 44 - Tues 21st April: The Beach, Raglan

Went to Raglan and learnt how to surf

Day 39 - Thurs 16th April: Redwood Forest, Rotorua

Went mountain biking and a picture will be coming soon (it's on someone else's camera)

Day 17 - Weds 25th March: The Skyscraper Museum, NYC

New York has lots of skyscrapers. New York has lots of museums. Hold on a sec, how's this for an idea...
Skyscrapers + Museum = The Skyscraper Museum

Day 3 - Weds 11th March: The Met, NYC

There's so much to see at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but one of my favourite things was this 'mirror ball' thing by a guy called Anish Kapoor. It's made up of loads of hexagonal mirrors. When you moved closer to it there would be 100s of small reflections; when you moved away there would be one big reflection of you. Weird, but cool.