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Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-BME to board a 12-pax/5-crew 67ft catamaran for a two-week voyage along the Kimberley coast to Wyndham, where we disembark for a land transfer to Kununurra to fly KNX-xBME-PER. Here’s the itinerary: The voyage is timed to coincide with the end of the wet season...

Tomorrow it’s on the bird to start heading to NZ for the rest of January. The original plan was to join a one-way 15-night Coral Expeditions voyage from Bluff (port for Invercargill) through the southern islands of NZ and Macquarie Island (aka ‘Macca’) to finish in Melbourne. I did something...

Tomorrow it’s on the road again heading north for another expedition to Dirk Hartog Island. I went last year, but the original plan for just PJM and me to go was upended by a string of circumstances. Rather than cancel, my brother and I went, with another expedition of six people this year...

I have gifted lounge passes to two NB friends travelling PER-LHR return on QF9/10. I see from a 2023 Point Hacks article that it appears that they may not be able to use them at the PER Int. Lounge. Will the same apply at LHR? For PER, is it worth advising them to use the passes in the Dom...

Time for us to get away again. Tomorrow it’s on the birds PER-xBNE-CNS to the next day join a 13-day Outback Spirit tour to Cape York. The timing of the tour fits neatly in the WA July school holiday, with PJM only needing to take an extra day’s leave tomorrow on the final day of term to...

Tomorrow it’s on the birds PER-xADL-ASP to do an Outback Spirit tour of the Red Centre for five nights, plus an extra night in ASP at the end of the tour before getting on the ASP-xADL-PER birds home. All flights are J Classic Rewards. The itinerary shows the route as starting at ASP and ending...

Time for our usual third week of January summer break before PJM resumes toil, so tomorrow it’s on the (downgauged since booking) QF bird PER-SYD, overnight at Rydges, then the QF bird on Monday to ZQN for five nights, NZ ZQN-AKL to overnight, then the NZ bird AKL-PER Sunday next week. The QF...

Come Sunday night, it’s on the EK bird PER-xDXB-FCO to start a brief trip to Italy. As those who regularly read the Qantas Wine latest offering thread would know, I was the winner of the Win a Trip to Italy competition back in April. When Deirdre, the Qantas Wine rep phoned (in an unbelievably...

Righto, three weeks is enough time at home. Tomorrow it’s back on the bird PER-DRW to overnight before boarding Coral Expeditions’ Coral Geographer for a 12-night voyage along the Kimberley coast and out to Ashmore Reef, Scott Reef and Rowley Shoals. Coral Expeditions plies the Kimberley Coast...

Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-DRW for a brief trip to Kakadu. Before covid, PJM and her daughter booked an Intrepid trip for 2020. That became history and many things have changed, so the credit is being used with me substituting for PJM’s daughter. Tomorrow night will be in Darwin before we...

Righto, time to hit the road again. Come tomorrow at sparrow’s, it’s off to Dirk Hartog Island for the next week. The island is a National Park within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area and is famous for Dutch East India Company Captain Dirk Hartog, sailing the ship Eendracht from Cape Town to...

Time to get air and sea-borne again. Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-SYD, to overnight there before SYD-CNS the next morning. Overnight in CNS before boarding the Coral Discoverer (Coral Discoverer) for a 7-night voyage to the outer Great Barrier Reef. And a better perspective: This voyage...

Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-SYD to – finally – get aboard the Indian Pacific for the trundle back to PER on Wednesday 1355h-Saturday 1500h. While this trip follows my recent DRW-ADL journey on the Ghan (A gallop on The Ghan), its planning long preceded the organising of that. I originally...

Time to get on the move again. Tomorrow around noon it’s on the bird PER-DRW and then on Friday morning DRW-GOV to start a 12-night journey across Arnhem Land back to Darwin and then home after another night in DRW. Here’s the route: Most of the TR will be after returning home as we’ll be...

This afternoon it’s on an Air North (QF codeshare) E190 PER-KNX until Saturday morning for some warmth and exploration. PJM hasn’t previously been to Kununurra, but I’ve kicked around there a few times before, so I have a few (surprise) activities planned to take in the classic sights of the...

Righto, this afternoon it’s on the bird PER-SYD - and back on an A330 at last - to take in Vivid for two nights. Using a credit from an aborted 2021 flight from my Amex Ultimate $450 flight credit plus I think snaring some extra QF points from the status extension promo, according to my sketchy...

Time to hitch up the camels. Tomorrow, it’s sliding into 1A again. This time, PER-DRW in preparation for boarding The Ghan on Wednesday morning for the 2,979km run to Adelaide, arriving Saturday morning. There will off-train excursions at Katherine, Alice Springs and Manguri/Coober Pedy on the...

Back in pre-history when I did a lengthy DONEx every year and stitched into it a variety of free-range and organised tour activities, I had booked in 2019 back-to-back Intrepid and Peregrine (both Intrepid Group companies) tours: Romania-Moldova-Ukraine :oops: and Azerbaijan-Georgia-Armenia as a...

Tomorrow morning, it’s on the bird to Broome. This time, it's until Friday - in contrast to the overnight brush in December 2020 that was done to meet a status-extension offer (A Brush with Broome), some brief brushing passing through in June 2021 (Brushing Broome to points further N) and in...

Back in March, in a fit of misplaced optimism, I thought the world was returning to normal so I started planning a heap of travel. Well, we all know how that turned out. :rolleyes: One booking that I did keep in place was to visit the Qantas Founders Museum in LRE. I’ve been to Winton and...