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Puerto Rico Days 23 and 24 Old San Juan and El Yunque National Park

We got up relatively early and Luke and I went for an 8km run down to the town we had seen last night and back again. We ran along a path that took us along the beach towards the Isabela beach resort. After our run we made some breakfast with the left over taco mixture…

September 22, 2025 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Languages, Spanish, Surfing, Travel Latin America.

Los Angeles Day 1 Manhattan Beach

It was Christmas morning 2024 and we were up reasonably early, we kick started the day with some yoga and a unit of Duolingo, well I did, Christine had a bit of a sleep in. We ate a hearty breakfast of wontons and cereal and then packed the last few pieces of clothing. Around a…

January 30, 2025 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Travel Latin America.

Australian East Coast Road Trip

I grew up in Nowra New South Wales and live in Queensland, normally when we go home for Christmas and other events we do one almighty drive straight through with possibly a stop at Stu and Alesia’s place in Port Macquarie either going down or coming back. This time we decided to take a couple…

October 19, 2024 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Surfing, Travel Australia.

Philippines Adventure Day 10 Magpupungko Rock Pools

Early morning surf session Christine and I got up early and made our way down to the beach break near the Harana Surf Resort. It had been raining on and off all night long. When we arrived at the break there were still a few fun ones around just like yesterday evening. Christine was a…

April 14, 2024 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Surfing, Travel Philippines.

Philippines Adventure Day 9 Cold Springs and a full moon party.

We got up late and then decided we would hire another motorbike and make the trip up to the rock pools. This plan was last minute and didn’t work out. Ben, our motor bike bloke, was out surfing someplace and nobody knew where, the XRM had been hired by another Aussie and was out for…

April 5, 2024 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Surfing, Travel Philippines.

Philippines Adventure Day 8 Yoga and Coco Frio

Morning Yoga Session We got up reasonably early so that I could fill up the bike and return it to Ben. Afterwards we made our way over to a yoga place that we had seen the day before. Mum, Christine and I were the only participants. Having said that, it was exactly what we needed,…

March 31, 2024 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Surfing, Travel Philippines.

Philippines Adventure Day 7 The bike crash

I went out early to collect the XRM bike, this is a farm type motor bike and as such it had a fair bit more go in it than the scooter. I collected Christine and we rode out to the wet markets to drop the clothes and books to Angelo so that he could take…

March 31, 2024 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Surfing, Travel Philippines.

Philippines Adventure Day 6 Island Tour

Flo contacted us early to see if we wanted to go out on the boats for an Island tour. We said count us in, we got organised in record time and made our way out to the launch site, which was just in front of the wet markets. Christine and Scotty were starting to come…

December 18, 2023 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Travel Philippines.

Philippines Adventure Day 5 Maasin River and Del Carmen

The Mission This was a super interesting day. Everyone was starting to run low on cash and having been rorted blind in Australia when trying to exchange money, we decided that we would make it our mission to hunt down the best deal that we could. We had already transferred money using Western Union, it…

December 12, 2023 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Travel Philippines.

Philippines Adventure Day 4 The Boat Surf Trip

The Boat  Flo had organised for a boat to take us out to surf near the islands off La Luna, and we were to meet up with them at 7am. We had organised for the surf shop at Cloud 9 to deliver a couple of boards to Ocean 101 at 6:30am. Perfectly organised, with some…

December 11, 2023 in Adventure, Beach Culture, Travel Philippines.

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