Monday, August 23, 2010

Wet and secure in Mumbai

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Our first stop in India was Mumbai. We arrived in dead of night, landing soon after 2.30am. Even at this hour the airport was bustling with...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Going wild in Alaska

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In August 2010 Garry and I took an eight-day cruise from Vancouver up the Alaskan Panhandle. We then rented a car to drive up to Denali Nati...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Up the Mount

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The sun briefly broke through the clouds this afternoon here in the Bay of Plenty. After almost 300 millimetres of rain over the last few da...

Something for Murray to read

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Three days of hot, unrelenting sunshine in Las Vegas are rapidly becoming nothing more than a distant memory as I type this blog post. I...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

Members of the 70 Percent Club

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We’re slowly making our way south as tomorrow we'll finally depart Alaska. Tonight we’ve based ourselves at the Mt KcKinley Princess Wil...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

Better than National Geographic

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We’re in Denali National Park, 237 miles north of Anchorage. It’s a vast area covering more than four million acres of Alaskan wilderness, c...
Friday, August 06, 2010

Going wild

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It’s 10am. We’re about to check-out of our hotel in Anchorage and collect a rental car. We’re off to Denali National Park today. Ahead li...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Discovery Day

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We've just arrived in Anchorage after an eventful day of wildlife encounters in Seward, rounded off by a spectacular four-hour train jou...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Cruising the Gulf

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Our Alaskan cruise is almost over. We have just under 220 nautical miles to run across the Gulf of Alaska before our arrival in Seward tomor...

Hubbard Glacier

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After a disappointing experience at the Mendenhall Glacier on Saturday, Garry and I decided that our Icelandic glacier adventures had spoilt...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Sitka

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Sitka was the capital of Russian America until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867. It was founded by Alexander Baranof in 1799 who...