Farwell Norfolk Island

I’m currently on the plane to Brisbane. It’s been a great week and I’m really glad I came. Norfolk Island wasn’t really somewhere I had always wanted to visit and apart from vague knowledge about the mutiny on the bounty and it being a penal colony I really didn’t know anything about it.
It’s definitely a quiet time of year to visit. I did choose that and there haven’t been crowds of people wherever I’ve been. The downside though is some places were closed and several of the tours I would have liked to have done were cancelled due to lack of numbers. I still did a lot and saw a lot. I think 7 nights was a good amount of time, although another couple would have been nice.
Being in one spot the whole time is different for me but I’d definitely do it again. It was nice to only have to unpack once and not worry about keeping food cold while I was driving. Having a car was essential if not coming with a tour group. I think I saw all of the island that didn’t require a long hike to get to
Norfolk Island is great and as one of its main industries is tourism it is set up for it, while retaining its small community feel. Everything is well maintained and I only recall seeing one piece of litter the whole time I was here. There are BBQs and toilets at nearly all the reserves. Everyone I saw was very clean. I’m still scarred from my trip to Ireland in 2018 where there seemed to be no public toilets anywhere so it was nice to see them here.
It’s not really attached to one state or another. The postcode is a NSW postcode and they belong to a federal electorate in Canberra. The phone country code is the same as that of Antartica and school system Queensland. The local radio takes NZ news in the mornings, the tv news was from Melbourne on the weekend and Sydney during the week. The adds were from NT.

The weather has mostly been good, I’m glad I brought my jacket. The sunsets have been gorgeous.

Today I wandered around downtown then went out to the Commissariat museum however it was again closed so I didn’t get to go through it again.
I went out to Cascade Pier. I’d forgotten out the ship that was unloading on Monday, it has moved away from Kingston pier, obviously around to Cascade pier. This morning they were loading recycling from the island onto the boat. I don’t know if they also take unrecyclable rubbish off as well but there were many pallets being loaded.
Back into Burnt Pine for some lunch and then to the tourist information centre to borrow their apple device to open the SIM card pocket on my phone (I brought the wrong one with me), filled the car up with petrol - $3.06/L and then out to the airport.

In Brisbane now. Flight was uneventful. Hardest part of the trip was finding my way out of Central station to my hotel.Läs mer