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The end of the road…

A sunset picnic dinner at the Sydney Botanic Gardens – overlooking the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge – had us sharing and talking and laughing until the bats descended upon our grassy knoll and the cityscape transformed into its … Continue reading

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The Good Life

Here I sit writing notes and giggling to myself while looking at photos of 14 beautiful people. 14 incredible friends. We met a mere two months ago but I feel as though I have known them my whole life. I … Continue reading

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Beached As, Bro!

G’day from Australia! From our own private campground on an island near the Great Barrier Reef, to the stunning lakeshores and healing lagoons of Fraser Island, and now to the sweeping sand and rolling surf of chilled out Byron Bay, … Continue reading

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SCUBA

We are all sitting in a gorgeous house on the beach of Railay in southern Thailand. The mood is relaxed, tired, homey, and hungry. We have spent the entire day diving and snorkeling around the islands of Phi Phi. We … Continue reading

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Sunrise at the Angkor temples

A few lovely pics of the group on their first morning exploring the temples…

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We Love Cambodia

Thus far we have spent 8 days in the country that is shaped like a frying pan, flat and hot and ringed by mountains. There are rice fields as far as the eye can see and the horizon is dotted … Continue reading

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Goodbye, New Zealand…

On our penultimate night in New Zealand, enveloped by a cold and silent darkness in Mt. Cook Village, we are snuggled inside our hostel as snow gently swoops down outside. Although we have yet to see Australasia’s highest peak and … Continue reading

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Nelson Lakes…awesome!

We had an awesome time at Nelson Lakes – with wonderful DOC staff Sandra, John, Paul, and the rat grid people. Had one full day of rain, but we made plant cages in the workshop while rocking out to some … Continue reading

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Noises of Nam

I woke up around 7 to go downstairs for our complimentary breakfast which was an amazing buffet. Mica and I sat outside under umbrellas overlooking rice fields with people working and it was surreal. It started to pour down rain … Continue reading

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Most memorable experience from the Kahurangi expedition…

Holly: The intensity of the wind atop ridges, at times stopping each of us in our tracks…literally unable to move against it’s force! Crazy! Leslie: Sleeping beneath all the stars and the milky way, and then waking up to the … Continue reading

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