Auckland Terminal
23 april 2017, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Waiting to check in
Boarding
23 april 2017, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Home for a day
24 april 2017, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
First stop. Tauranga! Fun to see our town and Mount from a new angle... richard n i just being tourists see his wee face in the porthole of our room.
Bay of Islands
25 april 2017, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Tendering in to Paihia. Glow worm tour coming up.
Kawiti Glow worm cave
25 april 2017, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
This is a well done spot to visit. Excellent guides and awesome viewing of the gloworms. Limestone cave as good as any...
Puketi Kauri Forest
25 april 2017, Nieuw-Zeeland ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Kauri trees...some very nice specimens. wee stop at te rewa a reconstructed Maori village the roosters were quite friendly.
Bye Bye NZ
25 april 2017, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The last of then nth island fades away as we head to New Caledonia.
At Sea
26 april 2017, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
Heading to New Caledonia ... all day. Time for some Canyon Spa treatments. Noticing the air warming up outside too. Most pleasant.
chillaxin spa day
26 april 2017, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
time changed by one hr course we forgot so up with the birds. reflexology n pedicure for me deep tissue massage for Richard. hope we find someone to play cards with today.
Happy Hour!
26 april 2017, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌫 13 °C
Arriving Noumea
27 april 2017, Nieuw-Caledonië ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Always fun watching our arrival included nice welcome performance by a local troupe.
Richard n Sheila Travels
Coral reefs look spectacular way out in the ocean...of course we are getting "near" land but water seems deep and very blue.
Noumea
27 april 2017, Nieuw-Caledonië ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Second visit here, no better than the first. Next time we find ourselves in Noumea I think we have to take an excursion and go to the beaches maybe snorkelling. That said...we arrived late so thoseMeer informatie
Isle of Pines
28 april 2017, Nieuw-Caledonië ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Just a couple of lovely beaches
Arriving in Suva Fiji
30 april 2017, Fiji ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Suva Fiji
30 april 2017, Fiji ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Stop for a day...tight squeeze at the dock! 9am was 28C and a bit steamy. Nice when on holiday 😁
Lautoka Fiji
1 mei 2017, Fiji ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Nice spot for a Happy Birthay, eh Sheila?
Cultural Experience Lautoka
1 mei 2017, Fiji ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Took a tour to a remote village where we experienced a Kava ceremony, a mud treatment, a massage and nice mineral bathing. A+ day! About 30C most of the day but not much direct sun...quite OK as we'veMeer informatie
Celebrating birthday with new friends
1 mei 2017, South Pacific Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
went to Red Ginger for Sheila's birthday with 2 couples we've met from NZ. 1 from our hm town n 1 from Thames. how lucky are we!
Docked in Apia Samoa
3 mei 2017, Samoa ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Highly humid, a bit of rain, very tropical.
Apia Samoa
3 mei 2017, Samoa ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Great stop here in Apia. Took the shuttle to town and stumbled on a fantastic cultural park. Non stop Samoan song and dance...watched an umu being set down, enjoyed the food thus prepared, saw a tapaMeer informatie
Pago Pago American Samoa
3 mei 2017, Amerikaans Samoa ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Port in this tiny island. US territory in the Pacific. Quite a lot of industry and port commerce.
Cultural Tour Pago Pago
3 mei 2017, Amerikaans Samoa ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Short tour to see the culture. Not as good as Samoa (dancing to sound system music here vs actual drums ukulele guitars and singing in Samoa). Roads clogged with big vehicles and rather bumpyMeer informatie
Bora Bora
6 mei 2017, Frans-Polynesië ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Wow. Spectacularly beautiful. Just arrived and at anchor...we tender in today. Sheila arrived in style...in the hot tub at front of ship!
Snorkelling in Bora Bora
7 mei 2017, Frans-Polynesië ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
swam with stingrays and sharks gentle graceful creatures. coral is beautiful but much is dying. sunscreen is killing the coral in addition to other factors. who wld hv thought??
Bye Bye Bora Bora
7 mei 2017, Frans-Polynesië ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
Spectacular show in the sky as we depart for Moorea...