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The Antipodees.
Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
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Last post Scheyville OTU
by Hydromet View the latest post
Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:38 am
Somewhere called Europe
Might have some relevance to a few
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21 Topics

275 Posts

Last post Re: Greece, specifically sail…
by Ex-Ascot View the latest post
Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
The New World
Probably not that new now.
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7 Topics

49 Posts

Last post Re: Local Airman Collecting f…
by Cacophonix View the latest post
Tue May 09, 2017 1:08 pm
Effrika
Nice place if it wasn't for some of the locals
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65 Topics

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Last post Re: Only in Effrika
by OFSO View the latest post
Thu May 29, 2025 7:03 pm

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Only in Effrika

Last post by OFSO « Thu May 29, 2025 7:03 pm
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by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:36 pm
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This amused me just now; :))

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We were sitting on Tuesday in the assisted travel area of LHR waiting for a wheel chair for Mrs OFSO. Opposite us sat a couple from Africa, one...
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Last post by OFSO
Thu May 29, 2025 7:03 pm
Scheyville OTU

Last post by Hydromet « Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:38 am

by Hydromet » Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:38 am

Australian ex-Army Aviation may be interested in a museum being opened at former 1OTU. details in link

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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:38 am
New President for Botswana

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:14 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:30 pm

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Seismic change in Botswana as party that ruled for 58 years loses power
President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s concession came before final results were...

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Former Permanent Secretary to the President (PSP), Carter Morupisi, will rue the day he appealed an earlier conviction for corruption as the...

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:14 pm
Air Vanuatu......Gone?

Last post by bob2s « Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:04 am
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by EA01 » Mon May 13, 2024 12:28 pm

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Seems like it!,.....Mrs Vfliegs & I have flights booked with them to Port Vila in August for our 25th wedding aniversary...

Just checked the travel...

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My memories of Vanuatu go back to 1968 when it was a condominium of the British and French who had joint sovereignty and, a strange way
of living...

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Last post by bob2s
Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:04 am
Namibia Culling Wildlife for Meat

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Thu Aug 29, 2024 5:56 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Wed Aug 28, 2024 4:35 pm

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Namibia plans to kill more than 700 animals including elephants and hippos — and distribute the meat

Namibia is planning to kill more than 700...

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No...Meaty and slow.
I would be one of the first to go in the pot...After the bullets run out.

Edited to add:
I would not be competition for them as...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Thu Aug 29, 2024 5:56 pm
The Cook Islands

Last post by EA01 « Thu Aug 29, 2024 11:25 am
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by EA01 » Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:09 pm

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Jnr Fliegs gets married next month, and after that We'll be heading back out into the Pacific again.......Cook islands this time...anyone been...

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Forget the Cook Islands, Vanuatu beats it hands down!!, by a long way!!!

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Last post by EA01
Thu Aug 29, 2024 11:25 am
Say It Ain't So...Drop Bears Reportedly Don't Exist

Last post by Hydromet « Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:42 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jul 30, 2024 2:50 am

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Drop bears: The true history of a fake Australian animal

CNN
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Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close...

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D2 and a friend were hiking in Tasmania and two young south American guys who thought they were God's gift to women tried to attach themselves. When...

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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:42 am
Does Karearea Have a New Feather For Her Hat?

Last post by EA01 « Thu May 30, 2024 5:48 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue May 21, 2024 7:58 pm

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World’s most expensive feather sells at New Zealand auction

A feather from a long-extinct New Zealand bird has set a record after selling for...

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Very Interessting Indeed Karearea!

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Last post by EA01
Thu May 30, 2024 5:48 am
Pinky Not holding Up His End?

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:19 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:38 pm

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Australian farmers rip out millions of vines amid wine glut

Peter Hobson/Reuters
CNN
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Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and...

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Further to my earlier post re a grape oversupply; A large Winery Group with a huge premises just 'up the road' (massive expansion of facilities only...

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:19 am
Japan earthquake.

Last post by Boac « Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:28 pm
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by Boac » Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:25 am

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What an awful start to 2024 for these folk. The last big one in 2011 produced 40m high waves and trashed the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Tsunami warning downgraded at present.

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Last post by Boac
Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:28 pm
Fire in Johannesburg today...

Last post by Woody « Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:47 am
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by OneHungLow » Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:38 am

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A t least 73 people have died - including seven children - in a Johannesburg building fire.

More than 50 others were injured.

Officials say it is...

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The site of the fire in Johannesburg, which left 73 people dead at last count on Thursday, started out as the Central Pass Office, which rigidly...

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Last post by Woody
Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:47 am
Moremi Air Prang

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:19 pm
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by Ex-Ascot » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:29 pm

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Relax Cape. Understand that they plonked an Airvan in this morning. Statistics balanced. First since the tragic AKD in 2011. Seems no one hurt.

For...

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Major Blue have had their license withdrawn, Not that upset they are a Injun setup who arrived here with mega dosh and announced that they were going...

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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:19 pm
Burning donkey cart issues in SA.

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:24 pm

by OneHungLow » Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:24 pm

Fire on board donkey cart.JPG

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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:24 pm
Farewell Bree Street Johannesburg.

Last post by OneHungLow « Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:43 pm
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by OneHungLow » Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:33 am

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Enough to make poor old Lillian Ngoyi turn in her grave.

Farewell Brie Street.JPG

A panicked WhatsApp message from the Johannesburg...

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Allows for some ironic humour...

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Last post by OneHungLow
Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:43 pm
Shark bites boat!

Last post by OneHungLow « Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm

by OneHungLow » Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm

Moment shark bites and begins to deflate boat full of tourists off South Africa coast!

The moment a shark bit and deflated a boat off the coast of...

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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm
South African cheetahs fare badly in India.

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm

by OneHungLow » Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm

Another wild life scheme fiasco in the making.

India has lost its seventh cheetah since the start of an ambitious translocation project that aims...

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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm
The British Empire in Africa

Last post by OFSO « Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:30 pm
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by OneHungLow » Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:35 pm

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I thoroughly enjoy these colonial vignettes and anecdotes and so I thought I might share this site with those who happen to find themselves alone and...

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OneHung, thanks for that post. An enjoyable read....

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Last post by OFSO
Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:30 pm
African humour...

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm

by TheGreenAnger » Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm

Don't f@$% with the Sangoma!

In the great days of the British Empire, a new commanding officer was sent to a South African bush outpost to relieve...

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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm
Greece, specifically sailing the Saronic Gulf.

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
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by G~Man » Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:12 pm

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Ahoy mateys.... and anyone else who knows Greece, @Mrs Ex-Ascot & @Ex-Ascot maybe....?

I am leading another flotilla of sailing catamarans in the...

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Sorry but we are Agean. Think RiS is your very best bet.

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
Oil, coups, misery and power struggles in Africa...

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm

by TheGreenAnger » Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm

PBS documentary on the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

Some scenes may be distressing. Well worth watching though. It sums up the...

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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm
Always a laugh...

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:00 pm

by TheGreenAnger » Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:00 pm

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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:00 pm
SA Winery Ducks

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:21 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:19 pm

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How duck 'soldiers' became this 300-year-old winemaker's secret weapon

(CNN) — South Africa's viniculture industry employs around 270,000...

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Vergenoegd Löw produce some fines wines and the ducks are very cute to behold. Well worth a visit if you are in that neck of the woods.

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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:21 am
Standard of English as it is in NZ

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
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by prospector » Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:36 am

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Was not aware we had this Department

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Dear Puzzled,
This was the original headline in the article:
Department of Conversation investigating after dolphin found beheaded on South Auckland...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
Careful, They'll be After Your Farts Next

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm

by PHXPhlyer » Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm

New Zealand to price sheep and cow burps to cut greenhouse gases
The proposal would make New Zealand, a large agricultural exporter, the first...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm
This will have China really worried!!!

Last post by bob2s « Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
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by prospector » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:20 am

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New Zealand must send strong signal to Pacific over China - Defence Minister Peeni Henare

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This Prme Minister has let the lure of Chinese money into his or other pockets blind him to response he will receive from the indigenous people in...

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Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm

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