Hi Guys...its been a little while since I logged on to see what you are up to. You are certainly having a great adventure...whilst the rest of us toil away. Never mind. We've just started the season here...good ole Stoney, still as cold & green as ever. Good to meet up with everybody though. Well nothing exciting to report, I will keep up with your travels & enjoy the pics. Have fun. love to both Pen.

Hello there how jealous am I the postcards & phtos & stories look great & each day seems so fulfilled. Here it is just hectic.
I cant wait til I am in my 50's so I can dye my hair & Pete grow a beard & pack our bags & off we go. Who knows may be soomer. I would love to of done the bridge. Jackie was full of it when she came back i could have listened for hours. She has the parcel I just need to pop in & collect. I have sent you guys various emails over the last few days with loads of our pics from Shauna bday & girls just generally being silly.Thought you would enjoy seeing us all. Booked our hols to France & cant wait to go. Let me know about the Khola visit you are so lucky. I would not want to leave though.!!!!!
Sasha misses you terribly but it cheers her up when I tell her your stories & read her your cards.

Best get on as I am at work ooouuupps (who cares you only live once)

Hi Mark & Denise

See you made it to Rainbow hope it wasn"t a bum steer and that you got to Fraser. We really enjoyed meeting with you and having you stay with us. Hope to see you again sometime. Keep safe and enjoy. Will keep on touch.

Kathy & Gerard and of course Bess xxxxxxxxxxx

Hi guys!!! as you will now know, or be very confused, Helen and I have Brought the Fur & Feathers at Herriard, I left Four Square on December the 8th (that was a hard decision...NOT!) and went for it, thats how we know Stewart, but i forgot to mention to him that you did not know that I had left Four Square. Looks like you guys are having a mad time! Love the pictures, speak soon John H

Hi Guys..
Just got the web address from John and Helen from the Fur and feathers next door.
Your old biddies from Klix
What a great idea this website is (nobody told me about it.. any way now I know... !!)

Love the hair Denise..
It looks like you guys are having a ball..

We have just opened a national taxi call centre for South Africa in Knysna where all the great cage diving is so pencil that in for the not too distant future..

Mozdivers has really got busy since we last spoke.. they are certainly do a lot of dive trips to Tofu.. I will drop them a link to this site so they can keep in touch..

I hope to start building in Swaziland in the next 6 months so if you fancy coming for a chill out in the mountains you would be most welcome.

Back soon..
Stewart

Hi Guys

Photos look really impressive. Cannot believe you have been away so long. Carry on making us poor mortals jealous. Danny back in U.K. I have just had a week with him in the Red Sea, good diving but he still snores a lot. Ken

G'day guys, hope you got my text and managed to get sorted for your trip to Fraser Island. Have just been looking at some photos, which Anita has downloaded for me and have been reliving it all over again. Just wish I was there now, not having to work and wrapping up against the cold. Hope to go for my first real walk over the Easter break and see how my leg/foot holds up, it's still not good but can take weeks and weeks apparently to go down. Haven't seen Hayley yet to pass on your parcel, but we had a nice long chat and told her how well her folks are and that she shouldn't worry. She will be over as soon as she can to collect them. Just spoken to Carol, Sue has had her heart op and is doing OK, hopefully she will be home next week so we will go and see her and I will bore them with me piccies. Carol has at last sold her flat and brought a 2 bed mobile, which they will put on John's site and live to-gether, about bloody time eh! Anyway guys,no more news, stay in touch say enjoy the barrier reef. Luv J

Hi folks,

If you have not replied to any of my earlier "round robins" can you just confirm that you have received this one ( and you would like to stay on the mailing list - ta muchly)

Queenstown now seems a distant memory, yet it was only a week or so ago. On the way from Wanaka we stopped of to explore a Chinese settlement of the Gold Rush era in Arrowtown, a few miles from Queenstown. It is interesting to see now, over a century later, that their contribution to the local area is now being recognised.
We did enjoy our trip across the lake at Queenstown on the Steamship and the farm tour that was part of the package. The commentary fromour gude was as fresh as if it were the first time he had given it - very impressive. He also demonstrated sheep handling and sheep shearing. We did not find Queenstown particularly to our liking - maybe it was rather brash in comparision to the other places we had stayed.
The following day we drove to Te anau via a stop at Kingston so that we could take a trip on the Kingston Flyer - a xery nice Steam Railway! So different form the UK shackled with all the Health & Safety constraints. We were able to walk alongside the locomotive as it was being turned round at the end of each run and while it took on coal and water. As this was a morning trip we still had time when we reached Te Anau to visit the Glowworm caves in the evening. Although rather "organised" it proved to be a memorable trip. We spent two full days at Te Anau to enable us to have the time to take trips on both Milford and Doubtful Sounds (Fiords). The latter also included a visit to a huge underground hydro electric power station. Both days were wet but this resulted infalls of snow onto th tops of the mountains and spectacular water falls to admire (and be taken close enough to to get very wet from). We had met a few days earlier a couple who recommended a small company called Trips & Tramps for the Milford Sound tour, and they proved a very good choice. The guide was very knowledgable and being a small group (10 people) it was also very personal. Sunday morning we visited the Lakeside Church before driving along the Scenic Route to Invercargil. Again we were made very welcome and took away some ideas that may be fo interest to own own Fellowship in Downton.
Our stay in Invercargil was brief, although we did manage to have a walk in the central park in the evening (mostly in the dark - very romantic)
Monday was another long drive along another part of the Southern Scenic Route (including about 40 miles of unsealed, gravel. roads. By the time we were back on metalled roads I had just about got the hang of sliding round to corners in a four wheel drift! (The locals however still managed to power past ne as though I were standing still). Thankfully we arrived in Dunedin late afternoon in one piece. When we vere planning our trip we decided to stay two nights in Dunedin to allow us a full day there. This was to allow us to travel on the Taieri Gorge Railway. Another great trip, helped considerably by the clear weather. Although we had allocated seats the train was only not full. so we could go where we liked - I spent most of the outward leg standing on the open platform at the rear end of the train from where I tok some impressive photographs back down the track.. It is difficult to describe the experience, so we have bought the DVD to show anyone who is interested (and probaly a few who are not!!) The route is about 45 miles long of which 30 odd are carved through the solid rock side of the Gorge and therefore incorporates numerous tunnels and viaducts. We were fortunate that on the day we were in Dunedin the train ran the return trip both morning and afternoon so we were also able to book ourselves on a Wildlife Tour in the afternoon. Again although the wild weather was not particularly pleasant it did have the benefit of allowing us to see the Albatross chick being fed by one of it's parents and another young male demonstating it's flying skills - much more activity thans was normally expected for a one hour visit to the Observation Hide at this time of year. Apparently this breeding colony is the only site on any mainland in the World. The tour also included a trek round a series of hides interconnected by camaflaged tunnels to enable us to view Fairy and Yellow Eyed Penguins. Again we saw a lot of activity, including one coming up out of the sea and walking up the beach towards the hide.
On wednesday we drove to Timaruafter spending the morning in Dunedin, mainly spending money!! Trish and John have made us very welcome and already this B&B has been added to the list of ones that we would like to visit for a long period if we return again some time in the future.

Time to go - it is 11pm - more later,

Regards,

Mik

Hi

Did you get to the Blue Mountains and what did you think of them? If we'd known you were going to be in Sydney in March we could have met up with you after all. Never mind, such is life - we'll carry on working instead (it's such fun). Glad to see you're having such a good time and missing all of us at home!!!! As mentioned in our email, do let us know if you need a Red Cross parcel yet!

love and best wishes
Grant and Denise

HA HA finally we done that too. Walking the brideg was amazing, glad to hear it was such a thrill for you too. We are loving dropping in ans seeing how you are loving your trip. Keep it up we are taking notes. All the very best.

Good to see your piccies in Sydney. Sorry havent been in touch for ages. Nice to see the pictures of Jackie and Anita. I know Anita from Scotts also - what a small world. Not working suits you and you look very healthy. Just think of us freezing our bits in Vobster over the Easter Weekend!!! Take Care

Hi
sound like you are having a wonderful trip, wish I had know you were going to Kangaro vally, my cousion Jim Dorrington lives just up the road from the bridge , he is /was a bit of an edventura , taking people treking across aus , think you would have got on well with him and his wife, still to late
enjoy the bule mountains they are wonderfull, although i think youwill explore a lot more than we did,

Chris & Ted