Monthly Archives: September 2022

9 September 2022 Friday – Cocos-Keeling Islands day 3 – then to Perth Another early 6am start & we pack our bags ready for departure as we need to be out of our rooms by 8am. We leave our bags … Continue reading →

8 September 2022 Thursday – Cocos-Keeling Islands day 2 Another 6am wake-up for the 7am bus to catch the inter-island ferry again. Along the road we spot some white-chested waterhens then some green jungle fowl, some of our group are … Continue reading →

7 September 2022 Wednesday – Cocos-Keeling Islands day 1 Up at 6am to be ready to depart by bus before 7am as we have a ferry that waits for no-one to catch. There are dark clouds across the lagoon as … Continue reading →

6 September 2022 Tuesday – Christmas Island day 8 to Cocos-Keeling Islands This morning we are treated to a beautiful rainbow as a shower of rain went through as we ate a cooked breakfast at 7.30am of bacon & eggs, … Continue reading →

5 September 2022 Monday – Christmas Island day 7 Mark & Sue are our guides this morning for a walk into Hosnies Springs. The turn-off is along the Dolly Beach Road & the track into Hosnies Springs is not signposted … Continue reading →

4 September 2022 Sunday – Christmas Island day 6 Sue takes us on a crabbing & Brown Booby tour this morning & our first stop is not that far away, just near the residence of the Christmas Island Administrator. The … Continue reading →

3 September 2022 Saturday – Christmas Island day 5 Chris is guiding us today in his small bus to look for the Abbotts Booby.  After another good breakfast we head off.  We stop at the National Park entrance just outside … Continue reading →

2 September 2022 Friday – Christmas Island day 4 It is Goshawk day today & Mark, our guide, takes us through the technique of luring & catching a Goshawk. Mark is a leading researcher & has specialised in the study … Continue reading →

1 September 2022 Thursday – Christmas Island day 3 Another early start with breakfast again at the Golden Bosun where we chat with a few different travellers. A Nankeen Kestrel is sitting on the radio tower across the road also … Continue reading →

31 August 2022 Wednesday – Christmas Island day 2 Up at 6am for a 7am start to breakfast at the nearby Golden Bosun Tavern. There are frigate birds & bosun birds flying overhead & out the front of our unit … Continue reading →