Hard to imagine all I have done, and all the places I've been this month. Started the New Year with a rooftop party in Melbourne and spectacular fireworks all around the city. And now I am settled into a sunny apartment in Honolulu with some new art supplies just waiting for me to finish this blog post. But first recalling my month with so many highlights: the trip down the Great Ocean Road to the southern most point of Australia where the Pacific and Indian oceans meet - you really could see a change. My helicopter ride over the rock formations in the surf called the Twelve Apostles, now nine. Shakespeare in the park at the beautiful Melbourne Botanical Gardens: Romeo and Juliet and flying foxes. Lots of art there and in Sydney from Aboriginal (Koorie is a word that was adopted by Victoria's First Peoples as an alternative to the word Aboriginal) to Anish Kapoor. In Australia I also stayed in Sorrento on the coast where there was a total power outage so I got to see a true dark sky, with Milky Way, the Southern Cross and Orion head-over-heels in the southern sky, my compass was also upside down. Also saw the "Penguin Parade", and three days up in the Blue Mountains at Katoomba. Then finally after two months in Australia I flew to New Zealand. Such a magical place and grand scenery, I would like to go back; finishing it off with a tandem para-sail from Coronet Peak. So three months (plus an extra "leap day" gained crossing the international date-line) from when I left Newport I arrived in Hawai'i. Very happy with my apartment, housemates and location. And for the third time in a row have a fabulous land-person; he is a landlord, but first two were landladies. How to be politically correct with this term?
So this is my Trip Blog. Aloha.
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