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So we're back on air but limping along. It's a long story. Outback... Technology... Sigh. I'm typing this sitting in the shade of a neighboring caravan at Yardie Homestead campground at Ningaloo Reef. You gotta forgive the technology when you experience the scenery.

We went for a walk and a swim today (same drill as yesterday) but alas no snorkeling on the reef because it is too windy to see anything. The glass bottom reef boats aren't going out at all because there is a strong wind ...

Still no photos We haven't geen in a place where the technology is all in place.

We're in Katherine heading West in the next day or so. We'll check in when we're in Kununurra (Western Australia) where we've got email access again.

Just been up to Darwin and out to the Cobourg Peninsula in West Arnhem Land doing a Marine Debris Survey with a group of 10 others on a Conservation Volunteers Australia project. That means walking along beaches and picking up everything ...

Yes folks, it is the time of year when my wife and I pack up our life in New Zealand, and unpack our very different life in Australia. Since 2001 we have spent winters over in Australia. We hide in the warm parts until it gets nice back in New Zealand. Two more sleeps until we leave for Brisbane where our 4WD camper lives. We'll be on the road until we come back at the end of October.

Packing is starting to get serious, and at this point I get out my carefully preserved list from ...

You may have seen the new Prius commercial which was released recently in the US. My daughter Alyx Duncan was the choreographer. It was filmed here in New Zealand with a Japanese director. You can see the "making of" here



It isn't often that her work (either as choreographer or as a director) appears in a way I can post here, but that is starting to change thanks to YouTube. She directed a couple of no budget music ...

No I didn't go to Africa for the Easter Weekend! This was held down on the Coromandel Peninsula at a place called Prana retreat (http://www.Prana.co.nz). If you follow the link to Prana you will see it is a pretty alternative (or as we sometimes say, hippy trippy) place, but it was an excellent venue for this sort of get away from mainstream Western culture. The workshop was taught by a whitefella' from the USA called Chris Berry (http://www.panjeamusic.com/). He has spent a long time in Zimbabwe ...