After our visit to Movie World we headed south to Byron Bay, before staying the night in Grafton. The next morning we continued south to Coffs Harbour before heading inland to the New England Highway, then after travelling about an hour south back across to the Pacific Highway at Port Macquarie.
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Road Trip – Photos 3 – Stunt Driver
There are a number of live shows throughout the day at Movie World. One of the new shows is Stunt Driver in which a number of real movie stunt drivers show off their skills to a live audience. The premise of the show is the filming of a chase scene for a movie. The skill of the drivers in the show is absolutely amazing and shows you not everything you see in movies is computer generated.
Road Trip – Photos 2 – Movie World
The first day of the road trip was spent at Warner Bros. Movie World. This was my first time at a major theme park and it was a fantastic experience. Photos from the Stunt Driver show will come in the next blog post. But here are 28 photos of other parts of the day, and this is only a very small selection of what is on offer.
Road Trip – Photos 1 – Surfers Paradise
Me and a friend have just spent the past few days on a road trip between Brisbane and Sydney. In total there are over 700 photos from the trip. I don’t have time to put them all online, but over the next few days I will be posting the best photos from each of the days.
To kick things off here are photos from my morning walk at Surfers Paradise.
Four Days in Cairns – Tropical North Queensland
I have just spent the last four days on holiday in Cairns and the surrounding area.
During this time I saw, did, and ate:
- Ate Crocodile, Emu, and Kangaroo
- Ate Crocodile Curry
- Went on the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway over the Barron Gorge to Kuranda
- Bought Mango wine
- Went on the Kuranda Scenic Railway back down the Barron Gorge
- Climbed the Red and Blue Arrow Circuits behind Cairns and saw a wild Wallaby
- Went on On The Wallaby tour into the Tablelands visiting a number of waterfalls, cycling about 15km and canoeing down a river where we saw Spiders, a Tree Kangaroo, Platypus, Turtles, and a whole lot of other cool wildlife.
- Went hunting through a riverbed to find rocks that can be used for face painting.
Right now I am very tired to go into anymore details about the trip. However pictures speak a 1,000 words, so here are 21 photos to speak 21,000 words. (Click on a photo to see a larger version).
Sydney Harbour Cruise
I filmed this a few weeks ago but forgot to upload it until now, it is a little random as I just let the computer decide what to chop together.
Two and a Half Days in Melbourne
Ha ha ha and ho ho ho and a merry old land of OZ.
Saturday:
- Got up at 2am to head to airport to check in for flight.
- Arrived at Auckland Airport at 3.30am, checked in.
- Departed Auckland at 6.10am
- Flight was extremely bumpy, for the first time ever got Motion Sickness two and a half hours into the flight… so did lots of other people on the plane including an air hostess.
- Landed 20 minutes early at 7.50am
- Got on bus into Melbourne Central, arrived at Southern Cross Station.
- Walked to hotel, stopped at Mc Donalds for breakfast, checked into hotel.
- Went for a walk to look at town, found Federation Square, watched street perfomer, met up with friend.
- Went on tramp ride around the city
- Went on river cruise down the Yarra
- Went back to hotel at 4pm, fell asleep while mum went shopping
- Got woken by mum at 7pm, went out for dinner
- Got back to hotel, watched Sky News
- Went zzz
Sunday:
- Mum set alarm for 7am, she woke to me cursing at it.
- Had breakfast at Hotel, was really busy, lots of hungry hungry hippos.. people.
- Caught tram to Vibration Training place.
- Caught train to Dandenong
- Visited friends house
- Got driven to Sunnyvale
- Checked out these awesome Asian supermarkets… Think St Lukes but all Asian, had a sugar cane drink
- Got driven back to Caulfield
- Caught train back to city, got off at Parliament Underground Station not 100% sure where we were.
- Went shopping
- Caught tram to St Kilda beach
- Had dinner at St Kilda beach
- Caught tram back to town, which went on train tracks as well as roads… so cool.
- Watched Sky News and the 20/20 Cricket
- Went zzz
Monday:
- Woke at 5am
- Caught 5.45am tram to Southern Cross Station
- Caught 6.15am bus to Airport
- Checked in went shopping!!!
- Flew back to Auckland at 9.25am
- Landed in Auckland at 2.45pm
- Mum went shopping again.
- Got through customs just before 4pm.
What to do on a sunny Saturday?
Go for an epic car trip.
Auckland – Marsden Point – Whangarei – Doubtless Bay – Kaitaia – Auckland
710km+, 10+ hours driving.
And enough hills to test your stomach. Check out this section of State Highway One through the Mangamuka’s, brilliant way to test out your power steering.
Convenient Changes
Got back from Wellington last night where I had been for a training seminar.
Firstly when I arrived at the Hotel in Wellington I was advised that I had been upgraded to a room with a balcony. Wow. This didn’t mean much to me as I was merely staying overnight and when I arrived it was already dark but it was still cool to be upgraded. I also enjoyed having breakfast delivered to the room being more cheap then actually going to the onsite restaurant for breakfast, both time saving and affordable. Despite the price being $170/night I would recommend Wellington Holiday Inn they provide a fantastic service.
My second change came when I went to fly back to Auckland last night. The flight that I was booked on was cancelled. At this news I was expecting a painful wait for a spare seat on another flight back. But instead big ups to Air New Zealand who managed to squeeze me onto another flight that departed 30mins earlier then my canceled flight. That is some fantastic service.
