Rio de Janiero

Ipenema from our hotel

Sugar Loaf fro Corcavado

Corcavado from Sugar Loaf

Corcavado

Rears from the front row

IGUASSU FALLS

A few locals

We never did learn to Tango

This used to be called "English Square" - view from our hotel 

Montevideo - Uraguay

Above - walking the dog           Right - taking Mate

The start of the Pampas

The start of our pre-dinner cocktail ritual

with Mona & Gunnar

Mementos of a wasteful war!

The famous "Upland Goose" Hotel

We couldn't keep Gunnar out of the Pub

Mona phoning around for a crowd!

Jill meets a Penguin whilst Gunnar looks for the sign to London, England - doesn't seem popular!

Mona enjoying shopping

Above - More food

Right - with Station Master waiting for the train to "the end of the world"

Cape Horn on a good day

Balanced on the ships rails I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about going around "The Horn!"

Left - the girls find a good looking bloke whilst       (Above) - Gunnar hangs on to his Mrs

The pre-dinner drinks party grows

Smart party night - "the gang"

Right - Jerry, Steve, Winnie, Les, Graham, Jill, Mona & Gunnar

Just a few of the glaciers that passed our cabin window plus some views as we headed North

Above the beautiful Chilean countryside

Right - the not so beautiful Gunnar backside

Mona off with one half of the "batchelor"  two.....

Gunnar off with the other half!!!!!

Above - Santiago from our hotel bedroom

Right - "the gang" in the Andes

Above - "the baddies"!!

Left - Gunnar leaving the Andes emergency WC

Jill surveying Santiago's art market

Left - Santiago's answer to Rio's Corcavado

Santiago's main square

Not another flight!!!!

Auckland from the Devonport Ferry

Right - Auckland's Tower (from where very silly people pay to jump off!)

Looking towards Devonport and Waiheke Island from the top of the tower

Left - The view "the very silly people get before they jump!

The old Waiheke island ferry from Auckland

Right - The world's best scheduled bus service 

(Where else would the driver stop so that you can take photographs, and then telephone another bus to wait at their crossing point, so that it can take you to the best place on the island for lunch?)

Arriving Oz

Right - Collen & Kerry our hosts in Sanctuary Cove

Kerry does the cooking - Les does the eating!

His and her "buggies" - no cars are permitted!

Frank & Jenny  also entertained us to dinner

Jill gets to cuddle a "Croc"

Frank gets to cuddle Jill on his private jetty!

The mandatory photographs that you have to take when in Sydney

Sunset from the plane en-route from Sydney to Perth

Debbie and Phil entertain us in Woroloo

Below - two views taken during breakfast on their patio

Phil amuses the troops at an open air concert

We get to meet another eminent local artist

Right - Phil hands Jill her surprise birthday portrait

(Phil had painted this 1.5 metre painting  from a small photo that I had emailed him a few months earlier)

Mary & Mike looked after us - even taking us to their local (very busy) beach for breakfast!!

Wine tasting during a visit to a local winery

Visiting Violet & Karel more old friends from cruising

Right - They had the smartest toilet seat we had ever come across - it is encrusted with shells and (dead) sea creatures

This is not the Scarborough beach of home!

The entrance to Auckland pier!

Another memorable sun set over Perth

Leaving Perth

With Colin and Barb who took us on safari

The "safari gang" Colin & Barbs friends and family

The dining room, bar & lounge in the 6 bed roomed  "Safari Lodge" organised by Barb for her 60th birthday celebration - (right) - Barb with the cake

Some of the team behind the bar & some of the team heading out on a game drive...

We got quite close to many of the animals - or should I say they got frighteningly close to us!!!

It might look little in the photograph - but close up it was bloody big!

Spotting the animals out in the bush became very interesting, especially when they were trying to hide from you! But some just stood and looked!

The girls find a gold miner - but no gold!

Take a card Barb... Any card as long as it's always the king of hearts!

Blow the gold - Les finds an attractive lady ....

And then takes her down a dark mine!

The end of our holiday - a South African sun set

Welcome home - the view from our conservatory