Wreck Diving - Truk Lagoon, Micronesia (Australia/Pacific) JedySaturday, October 11, 2014 0 comments

Dive amongst sea anemones and Japanese airplane fuselages

During World War II, Campaigns against the Japanese deposited a couple hundred thousand tonnes of steel on the bottom of True Lagoon in Micronesia. Today, on resplendent coral growth, old Zero airplane fuselages and wing sections can still be found - providing scuba divers with one of the worlds best wreck sites. The Fujisawa Mart's hold still contains wartime ammunition, Dai Nippon beer bottles, stern guns and well-preserved telegraphs. Magnificent air compressors, a machine shop and a telephone booth can be clearly seen in the engine room of this World War II craft amidst a sea of anemones.

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Gaint Statues - Easter Island (Australia/Pacific) JedyFriday, October 03, 2014 0 comments

Theories abound on the mystic origins of Easter Island's Statues

Located 3,500 km (2,174 miles) off the coast of Chile, Easter island is the world's most remote inhabited island - technically a conjoined trio of extinct volcanoes that rise over 3,500 in (10,00 ft) from the ocean floor. Fodder for widespread speculatiion. the cultural development of Easter Island is shrouded myth in relation to its giant statues dating back to AD700 - some of which are over 1.2 m (4 ft) tall and weigh around 14 tons. Theories as to how the rock- hewn figures were carved then hauled and erected range from ship-wrecked elephants to Atlantis and arrivals from another world. Conjecture continues regarding mystic energy fields, alien influence and spiritual dynamics - one of the planet's last great puzzles.

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Melbourne Comedy Festival - Australia JedyFriday, October 03, 2014 0 comments

1st April 

As Australia's comedy capital, Melbourne play host to the International Comedy Festival, one of the three largest comedy festival in the world, alongside the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Montreal's Just for Laughs. Launched in 1987 by Barry Humphries and Peter Cook, Melbourne's annual comedy fest boasts a powerful program of stand-up, Improvisation, cabaret, street theatre, film, television and radio. Running for the three-and-a-half side-splitting weeks, the festival showcase and celebrates top Aussie and international comic talent.

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New Year's Day - Kiribati(Australia/Pacific) JedySunday, September 28, 2014 0 comments

Straddle the equator to revel in the first new year in the world's time zone

1st January

The 33 atolls of Kiribati are mere pinpricks in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean where islander live on coconuts, breadfruit and fish in mud-and-thatch huts just they have done for centuries past. Yet the Republic of Kiribati (Pronounced 'Kiri-bas') boasts a great claim to fame as the nation that straddles the equator and is therefore the first nation on Earth to celebrate New Year's Day. Kiribati's capital Tarawa sits about half-way between Hawaii and Australia at GMT +12. A unilateral adjustment in 1995 enabled the entire country to keep to the same time zone. 

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