This blog entry was written specifically as a guest post for @Plasma_Engineer’s blog “Something Surprising“, where he is celebrating 50,000 pageviews. Quite an achievement! Congratulations! You should read his highly entertaining and informative blog. If you read my blog regularly you’d know that I recently took a trip to the paradise that is the Fijian islands. For the first 5 nights we spent our time inside a walled...

Rarely do we get a chance in life to see something truly unique, but it is something I’ve always wanted to do. Here at home in Australia, I love nothing more than hiking to a remote area and acting out my amateur naturalist fantasies, and sometimes I wish I could see something that very few people will ever get to see, something off the beaten track, and off the radar of most folks. I hoped I would be able to do just that while on my...

BULA! It’s been a long time between entries! No i wasn’t abducted by aliens or raptured, I was away on holiday in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on the islands of Fiji, taking some time off from my usual routine to relax and take in the scenery of that beautiful nation, its people and its culture. I have been keeping a travel diary while away, so the next few blog entries will be about my experiences on Fiji rather than the usual...