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20 June 2021
Above: The Treasury casino in Brisbane. We touched down at Brisbane at our scheduled arrival time of 1055. We had to wait onboard seated for the Australian border force to give their announcement and then their clearance to disembark. It was just the normal immigration process upon arrival with no one checking the Australian or […]
9 November 2019
Despite the sleeping pill, I didn’t sleep that deeply this time. During one of the interruptions, I took another half and had about 4h in total. I managed to catch the crew as they were wrapping up their sale of breakfast. I was surprised that I’d be hungry at 0400 Malaysian time, which was 2h […]
27 May 2019
I woke up in my capsule early and headed out to the nearest supermarket to get some breakfast. I settled for muesli, yoghurt and fruit. The muesli can be resealed to provide me more healthy breakfasts in the days to come. After breakfast, I cleared out of my capsule and locker and settled into the […]
26 May 2019
Upon landing in Sydney, I took the train to Central where I had booked a capsule at Space Q. It was like Star Wars in my little capsule. As it was late in autumn, the day was getting short and cool. I put some effort in planning my travels so that I’m in places for […]
4 July 2017
Following our emergency landing at Brisbane, immigration was fairly orderly and I received the luggage around 0040, just over an hour after landing. Considering we landed at an airport which the airline didn’t operate into (and didn’t have their own or contracted staff), things went quite smoothly. Ground staff directed us to wait at Coffee Club […]
3 July 2017
We arrive into Gold Coast about 10 minutes behind schedule. The transit was uneventful and thankfully my duty free gin from Auckland made it through security without being confiscated (met all the requirements of tamper-proof transparent bag with receipt inside). A new crew welcomed us aboard. The purser started his announcement but then realised he […]
26 November 2016
First thing I did when I woke was to check on the internet whether my aircraft had departed Perth to come for us. The internet was broken. Fortunately it livened up again and the plane had a 10 minute delay. Weather was cloudy and drizzly. I filled up the car (1/3 empty) for AUD44. Must […]
25 November 2016
I had set the alarm for 0240. I had messages from Andrea and Diane cancelling due to rain. I looked outside and saw that the ground was wet but the rain had died to a drizzle. I decided to press on and drive to Ethel Beach. I parked and realised that it was pitch black. […]
24 November 2016
Going for the spawning I set the alarm for 0330 as I needed to be at Flying Fish Cove for the spawning at 0400. I cycled in. A group of people were at the boat ramp. There was a group of crabs but it wasn’t impressive. I looked further to the beach head to see […]
23 November 2016
I started the day going to the Tourist Information Centre to get an update on the spawning. While it was originally expected on the mornings of Sat 26th and maybe Fri 25th, they now thought it would be more Thu 24th and Fri 25th. To explore the island I also needed a car. But the […]