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The golf course had a local rule about kangaroos on the fairway. There were fourteen of them and none of them moved for anyone.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Ninety miles straight, no curve at all. We passed four road trains and one cyclist who waved with an energy that suggested he had not seen anyone for a while.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The signs say dangerous. Then one walks out of the rainforest two metres in front of the car and you understand the signs completely.
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Queensland, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The coastal walk at six in the morning was full of runners, swimmers and one man doing tai chi on a rock. Nobody had a phone out.
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Sydney, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Everybody goes at sunset. We went at eleven in the morning in 38 degrees, saw four people, and the rock was a colour nobody photographs.
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Uluru, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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We drove the whole road in one day, which is a mistake. Someone at a bakery in Apollo Bay told us to take three, and she was right.
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Victoria, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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We stood at Cape Grim in wind that had crossed the Southern Ocean untouched. It smelled like nothing at all, which is apparently the point.
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Tasmania, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Everyone hopes for sun. Locals told us to hope for rain, because that is when a thousand temporary waterfalls appear on the cliffs. They were right within an hour.
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Milford Sound, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Nineteen kilometres, four weather systems and a lake the colour of antifreeze. Somebody in shorts passed us going the other way at a run.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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We waited eleven minutes and got picked up by a shearer who talked about sheep for two hours and dropped us forty kilometres past his own turnoff.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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The boat went silent and the guide pulled us along a rope in the dark. The ceiling looked like a star map and was in fact several thousand hungry larvae.
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Waitomo, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Food cooked in a pit with hot stones for four hours. The steam when they opened it was worth the entire wait and the whole meal tasted faintly of earth.
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Rotorua, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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The boat was due at ten. It came at half past twelve. Everyone we asked said Fiji time with a smile and we eventually stopped asking.
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Fiji · Oceania & the Pacific
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You clap once, take the cup, drink it in one, clap three times. Your tongue goes numb and the conversation slows down and improves.
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Fiji · Oceania & the Pacific
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The tower is built from vines and branches with no nails. The divers aim to touch the ground with their shoulders. The mothers watch from a distance and do not look away.
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Vanuatu · Oceania & the Pacific
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Two days out of sight of land and then a line of palms appears that is only three metres above the water. You understand navigation differently after that.
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Tuamotus, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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There are two buses: clockwise and anticlockwise. You cannot get lost, and if you miss yours the other one arrives eventually going the long way.
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Rarotonga, Cook Islands · Oceania & the Pacific
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They arrive silently and are far larger than anything in the briefing prepared you for. Our guide held up nine fingers, meaning nine metres of wingspan, and then just watched.
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Palau · Oceania & the Pacific
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The ship comes every few weeks and the whole island knows the day. Everything changes when it arrives: the shop, the menu, the mood.
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Kiribati · Oceania & the Pacific
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Nothing is open and everything is quiet, until the churches start. We sat outside on the grass and listened to four-part harmony coming through open windows for an hour.
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Samoa · Oceania & the Pacific
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The skipper said the reef changes every year now. He had been diving the same site for twenty-three years and pointed out exactly where the colour had gone.
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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