Australia: Lord Howe Island: Paradise Revisited
Australian Island paradise located about a two hour flight from Sydney, Australia. Travel documentary by Robert Stephens. Thanks to Ian Hutton and Marie Stephens for appearing on screen, and to David Berkman and Jack Shick for lending their photographs. Filmed on Lord Howe Island in March 2010.
Lord Howe Island is a truly unique travel destination for anyone to visit. Visitor numbers are limited to 400. There are about 320 islanders.
The Lord Howe Woodhen, also called the Lord Howe Rail, is a small bird of the rail family. The Lord Howe Woodhen is flightless. The species is endemic to Lord Howe Island off of Australia.
Lord Howe Woodhens have dull brownish-olive plumage, and can be identified by their short tails and long, down-curved bills.
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Climbing Mount Gower | Lord Howe Island
I set the goal of visiting Lord Howe Island and scaling Mt Gower for my 50th year in May 2018.
We started our Lord Howe Island trip with a day trip out to the see the amazing Balls Pyramid with Jack Shick then on our 2nd day I climbing Mt Gower with him.
Mount Gower is rated one of Australia's twenty best day walks/climbs. Jack is a fifth generation Islander and third generation mountain guide, following in the foot steps of his Grandfather and Father. Jack is the most experienced guide on Lord Howe Island with a total of more than 2300 guided trips to the summit. Jack has been a mountain guide for 20 years. There is no one on Lord Howe Island more experienced to guide you on an unforgettable day. Experience breathtaking views, see some of the Islands rarest plants and bird life. All walkers receive a free certificate to commemorate their trip as well.
Mt Gower is an iconic peak at the southern end of Lord Howe Island, rising 875m from sea level. Considered a medium to hard trek. The walk is around 14km return and takes about 8.5 hours to complete, so you need to be in good health and have no knee or back problems. The walks are scheduled for every Monday and Thursday #justdoit
Passage to Middleton Reef, Elizabeth Reef, Lord Howe Island & Balls Pyramid
An episode with the Ocean Gem crew, who recount their epic 1,000nm trip from Southport to Pittwater via Middleton Reef, Elizabeth Reef, Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid. These unique reefs and islands are 300nm off Australia's Coast and are steeped in a history of untouched reefs, shipwrecks, incredible sea and bird life and the chance to stand knee deep in water, in the southern most coral reef in the world, surrounded by a 5,000m deep ocean in every direction.
This 9-day ocean passage initially took us 300nm upwind to Middleton Reef, a stopover at Elizabeth Reef and 2 days ashore at Lord Howe Island before sailing around the 'jurassic like' Balls Pyramid, en-route to Pittwater, NSW on a 10-25 knot, 3-day, downwind sleigh ride, in preparation for the Pittwater to Southport race in January.
The Giant Stone Pyramid in the Middle of the Pacific
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There's an island in the middle of the ocean that is part of an ancient sunken content and is home to an animal found nowhere else in the world.
Ball's Pyramid is a giant natural stone pyramid that rises 1,844 feet from sea level. Sitting 12 miles off the southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific, it was formed an estimated 6.4 million years ago as a result of a shield volcano eruption.
The monolithic natural pyramid was named after Henry Lidgbird Ball, a Royal Navy Lieutenant who discovered the island pyramid in 1788.
While the pyramid was made from a shield volcano now under the Pacific, it is actually part of the lost sunken continent of Zealandia. This continent is a rather large mass of continental crust that is believed to have separated from Australia roughly 60 million years ago and eventually sunk below sea level.
After it's discovery, Ball was unable to go ashore, and no man made the journey until Henry Wilkinson, a geologist at the New South Wales Department of Mines in 1882. Even after this first journey on the island, it would take almost another 100 years before man would summit the peak of the pyramid.
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
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The Cruise of the Snark Audiobook by Jack London | Full Audiobook with subtitles
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of surf-riding, which he dubbed a royal sport, helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
Genre(s): Memoirs
The Cruise of the Snark
Jack LONDON
Chapters:
0:23 | 1 - Chapter I -- Foreword
22:46 | 2 - Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous
54:18 | 3 - Chapter III -- Adventure
1:11:43 | 4 - Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About
1:34:55 | 5 - Chapter V -- The First Landfall
1:50:08 | 6 - Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport
2:14:28 | 7 - Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai
2:45:10 | 8 - Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun
3:14:18 | 9 - Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse
3:50:08 | 10 - Chapter X -- Typee
4:21:00 | 11 - Chapter XI -- The Nature Man
4:48:48 | 12 - Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance
5:27:12 | 13 - Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora
5:42:33 | 14 - Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator
6:22:33 | 15 - Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons
7:01:18 | 16 - Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English
7:17:00 | 17 - Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.
7:56:00 | 18 - Back Word
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