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 Sailing to serenityRalph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." That may well be true, but a few days at sea sleeping under the stars with nothing but the gentle rocking of a boat as you fade into slumber, sure helps you chart your course toward peace.
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 Summer on the Tasman SeaTucked among rolling green hills between a saltwater bay and the pounding surf of the Tasman Sea, the Awhitu Peninsula is a seductive landscape. And here we are, four years later, painting the ceiling in our loft and wondering if every electrician/plumber/carpenter on the peninsula takes an entire month off for the three-day Christmas holiday.
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 Love, Cook Islands styleIn 1997, Jo-Anne Carrière -- originally from Ottawa -- was living in Vancouver and had just lost her job selling dental products.
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 Rekindle your spiritual energy on the 'Magic Isle' of MauiWhen he learned that he would soon die, the great American aviator Charles Lindberg stated, "I'd rather spend two days in Maui than months anywhere else."
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 Green stays easy at the Maui Four SeasonsIt's a good thing Air Canada didn't play any of the movies making their debut at the Maui Film Festival during my flight to this heavenly Hawaiian island.
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 Touring Queensland's World Heritage wondersWorld Heritage Sites are defined by UNESCO as "irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration" and in February of this year my daughter and I visited three of them in Queensland, Australia, --one made of sand, one under water and one in the trees.
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 Riding the rails in AustraliaIn the movie Australia, Nicole Kidman stars as an uptight English aristocrat who falls in love with an uncultured Aussie drover (Hugh Jackman) as they trek across the Northern Territory from its parched, red interior to its lush tropical coast.
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 Crocodile Hunter's spirit dwells in Australia zooSome of the signs at Australia Zoo will make you smile. As we walked past a crocodilian enclosure, I couldn't help noticing a sign that described the mode of capture for a particularly large saltwater crocodile as the "jump-on method." Having previously watched a few episodes of the Crocodile Hunter TV show, it wasn't hard to picture Steve Irwin leaping onto the back of a wild crocodile.
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 Off the beaten track in Fiji with jet boat trekMy hubby Rick and I had always dreamed of going on a safari into distant exotic wilds. We just didn't expect it to be aboard a sleek jet boat in the heart of Viti Levu, Fiji's main island.
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 Easter Island still attracts more tourists than it can handleScattered around the shores of this tiny Polynesian island, many of the more than 900 male-shaped stone monoliths, called moai, can be found face-down rather than gazing calmly from an upright position as in the iconic image of the Easter Island statues.
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 Love, Cook Islands styleIn 1997, Jo-Anne Carri
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 Floating above a tropical gardenWe're eager and an hour early at Cairns Trinity Wharf for our three-night Great Barrier Reef cruise.
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 On to Mt. Doom at the crack of dawnI am definitely not a morning person, but I am a sucker for a good name.
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 A weekend in windy WellingtonGot 48 hours to explore Wellington? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors get the most from a short stay in the small, but diverse, capital of New Zealand.
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 Journey to UluruMaking the journey from the city to the outback is the quintessential Australian experience. It's a trip that's loaded with lore, fuelled by dreams and comes with its own set of risks and dangers.
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 Killer croc used to entice touristsIt may seem like a strange way to entice tourists, but Australians hope a blood-and-guts horror film about a giant crocodile stalking a group of terrified day trippers will boost visitor numbers.
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 Australia will fund world's longest golf coursePlans to build the world's longest golf course, across 1,200 km (750 miles) of treeless desert, received a welcome boost on Wednesday when the Australian government offered seed funding for the venture.
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 Sunday on SamoaClimbing out of bed at 5 a.m. on a Sunday isn't everyone's idea of the perfect holiday wake-up call. Especially after a late Saturday night celebrating Samoa's big international rugby win over rival neighbour Fiji.
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 Sound and beautyYou round a corner on Circular Quay, and there it is: the building that takes your breath away.
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 Hot Spot: On the Kangaroo TrailUnder strict orders from my five-year-old niece to "see a big fat kangaroo," I'm starting to panic on Day 1 of my epic Australian train trip. The 4,352-kilometre, three-night Indian Pacific route
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 Nothing says Noel like Christmas IslandIt certainly isn't what you would expect from a place called Christmas Island. No snow, no elves, no Santa, in fact one of the few signs of Christmas are the island's famous red crabs.
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 Tasmania offers adventureAs a youngster I learned that the island of Tasmania was once called Van Diemen's Land. My father would mention this from time to time, saying that he hoped one of us might some day visit there because we were Van Demans -- even though the spelling had been changed somewhere around the 18th century.
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 New Zealand on a budgetLast November, my husband and I went on a four-week holiday to New Zealand.
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