Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
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Air Vanuatu......Gone?
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EA01 » Mon May 13, 2024 12:28 pm
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Seems like it!,.....Mrs Vfliegs & I have flights booked with them to Port Vila in August for our 25th wedding aniversary...
Just checked the travel...
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My memories of Vanuatu go back to 1968 when it was a condominium of the British and French who had joint sovereignty and, a strange way
of living...
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Last post by bob2s
Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:04 am
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The Cook Islands
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EA01 » Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:09 pm
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Jnr Fliegs gets married next month, and after that We'll be heading back out into the Pacific again.......Cook islands this time...anyone been...
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Forget the Cook Islands, Vanuatu beats it hands down!!, by a long way!!!
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Last post by EA01
Thu Aug 29, 2024 11:25 am
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Say It Ain't So...Drop Bears Reportedly Don't Exist
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PHXPhlyer » Tue Jul 30, 2024 2:50 am
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Drop bears: The true history of a fake Australian animal
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Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close...
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D2 and a friend were hiking in Tasmania and two young south American guys who thought they were God's gift to women tried to attach themselves. When...
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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:42 am
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Does Karearea Have a New Feather For Her Hat?
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PHXPhlyer » Tue May 21, 2024 7:58 pm
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World’s most expensive feather sells at New Zealand auction
A feather from a long-extinct New Zealand bird has set a record after selling for...
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Very Interessting Indeed Karearea!
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Last post by EA01
Thu May 30, 2024 5:48 am
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Pinky Not holding Up His End?
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PHXPhlyer » Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:38 pm
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Australian farmers rip out millions of vines amid wine glut
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Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and...
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Further to my earlier post re a grape oversupply; A large Winery Group with a huge premises just 'up the road' (massive expansion of facilities only...
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:19 am
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Japan earthquake.
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Boac » Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:25 am
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What an awful start to 2024 for these folk. The last big one in 2011 produced 40m high waves and trashed the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Tsunami warning downgraded at present.
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Last post by Boac
Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:28 pm
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Standard of English as it is in NZ
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prospector » Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:36 am
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Was not aware we had this Department
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Dear Puzzled,
This was the original headline in the article:
Department of Conversation investigating after dolphin found beheaded on South Auckland...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm
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This will have China really worried!!!
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prospector » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:20 am
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New Zealand must send strong signal to Pacific over China - Defence Minister Peeni Henare
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This Prme Minister has let the lure of Chinese money into his or other pockets blind him to response he will receive from the indigenous people in...
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Last post by bob2s
Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
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False passports, but not a problem for these folk
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prospector » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:58 am
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A man who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka has been granted refugee status in...
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Sounds like a bunch of savages.
When I was there in 1973 a newspaper report included ran amok with a machete of a Maori on the funicular railway...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
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Last post by prospector
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm
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Last post by prospector
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am
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The disease of BLM or is it wokeness, reaches our fair shores.
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prospector » Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:07 am
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Obviously not all their customers have perused the sign on the left of the photo
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I agree, can't even pronounce Aotowotsit, never mind spell it. I wouldn't dream of being disrespectful or criitical of Maori, let them carry on doing...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:59 pm
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Last post by EA01
Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:11 am
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Last post by ian16th
Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:48 pm
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ETOP's and things
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ian16th » Sun Mar 03, 2019 1:39 pm
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An article written by an ignorant journo, about the possibilities of future long flights from Cape Town to the Australian east coast.
This journo...
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Please Sir, me Sir!
Gimme the nav data and I'll crunch the numbers for you. Geodesy is an advanced subset of navigation and used to be a major part...
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Last post by Undried Plum
Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:43 pm
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Storm
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Woody » Sun May 24, 2020 8:45 am
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Hopefully none of our members or their families are going to be badly affected.
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Only in those parts of the world where countries can be described as cute or quaint . :p
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Last post by Cooda
Wed May 27, 2020 11:33 pm
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What seeds are being sown today?
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ian16th » Sun Mar 03, 2019 12:15 pm
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My grandson, newly recruited to the Australian Air Force Cadets, has attended his 1st proper Air Show today.
I am awaiting the reaction.
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I've never forgiven the RAAF for getting rid of the the Aardvark. I used to love watching those at Tindal.
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Last post by Flintstone
Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:29 am
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Who is this mob?
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by Slasher » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:02 am
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The idea looks good on paper but I get the feeling it won't work.
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It's a very tough market. Many people are tied to their FF points and perks. Also, they'll have corporate accounts with the airlines too.
The US has...
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Last post by reddo
Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:23 pm
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The last gallon
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ian16th » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:44 am
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Qantas direct flights Oz - UK
A question of payload costs.
When these ultra-long distance flights happen, just how many units, be they...
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It annoys me somewhat that if my hold bag is 1kg over the allowed weight, I am expected to pay extra, which ignores the fact that I weigh less than...
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Last post by Slasher
Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:24 pm
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Recommendations
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by Sisemen » Mon May 14, 2018 2:46 am
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On Sunday the memsahb and I start a journey which ends up in Cairns; Perth-Adelaide by plane and thence by rail via Melbourne, Sydney and Brizzy....
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Muchos gracias. The Skyrail and Kuranda are on my agenda as is Green Island. Will check out the other spots. If you see me advertising on the Lonely...
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Last post by Sisemen
Mon May 14, 2018 11:25 am
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:24 pm
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Rossair prang
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by Slasher » Thu Jun 01, 2017 4:00 pm
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Rossair Conquest went in after T/O at Renmark on 30th.
3 blokes killed including chief pilot.
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There is a thread running re this accident on TOP and someone posted a photo of the wreckage site, taken I assume from a Media Helicopter.
All the...
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:27 am
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Brizzy this evening
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by Sisemen » Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:35 pm
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Well done the QANTAS captain that did the approach through this lot on QF 569 Perth-Brisbane this evening. Shortly after we penetrated this the...
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However Kai Tak with a typhoon moving in could be even bloody hairier at times.
Ha ha...yeah....remember that!!
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Last post by Fliegenmong
Thu Feb 23, 2017 12:00 pm
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Hello...
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Avtrician » Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:35 am
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I'm sorry, nobody is here to take your call at the moment.
Please leave a message at the beep and we will get back to when the pub shuts..........
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Only just looked at this thread .... one trick here in NZ when calling the national Telecom provider, is to just keep rattling the zero key about 10...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:20 am
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