WEBVTT - Travel with Steve Collins - Fri 06 Jun, 2025 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.520 We'll do this, Grumpy Colin roll again. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:09.440 Just give where to get on the roll again? Why 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.840 my love is making music with my friend? I give 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:15.680 on the roll again. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.959 Steve Collins Traveler. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.960 His YouTube site, he simply called that Steve Colin's Traveler 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.880 grumpy good morning. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.080 Well Bullah to you, Tony, And of course buller is 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.280 the three gen work for Hello. And guess where we're 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.680 going this morning. We're going to the South Pacific. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.639 Which we'll get to inester ticket. Have you spent much 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:45.400 time in Tasmania? No Ah? The word Well, there there 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.520 goes the segment. I thought we're going to probably milk 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:48.800 that for ten or fifteen minutes. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.360 Well, you're gonna ask me questions about it. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.680 So you're what, you've never been to Tasmania. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.440 No, it's a bone of contention because lonely this my 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.280 wife has been that I haven't, and I keep putting 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:09.000 pressure on her to for us to go and so far, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.600 because I've been to a lot of places, and because 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.319 in fact, she got back from Tasmania a week before 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:17.960 I met her. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.200 Ah, right. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:21.200 There you go. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.199 She got back from Tasmania a week before you met 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.880 and the rest is history. Had you known known. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.920 That she was going to prevent me from going to Tasmania. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:32.640 I might not have. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.759 Married her, that's right. She may not be the very 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.080 famous missus Collins. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.640 Well, that's exactly right. She might be a lot happier. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:42.480 I don't know. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.840 No, you've both had a joyous life and continua have 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.440 a pretty joyous life. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.320 The only reason I mentioned is because I threw it. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:56.360 That little question with regards to a great line from 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.080 song happened to come up in a feed just n 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:04.639 plus twenty four about a button pushing cowboy was asked 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:09.200 not to do what and had lots of responses by 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.960 way of text as to what the answer may be. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.880 Some people are very very correct. Other people are really 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.519 really not even close. And then we're and then we're 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:21.959 talking about it, and then were and then we yeah, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.520 and then we're talking about Tasmania. Given everything that's been 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.040 in the news about whether at the stadium and what 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.399 the government's doing, and it's been fascinating. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.600 They might have. They might have They might have an 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:32.600 election as well. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.760 They could now be going to election, which imagine most 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.400 Tasmanians wouldn't necessarily. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:43.080 Want no, because we've just had a federal election, you know, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.680 I think people get sick of too many elections, you know, Tony. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.480 I'd like to announce the date of my next election. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.040 Words to that effect. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.400 Well, I haven't had an election for a long time, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.480 you know, because oh no, it was back in March, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.480 wasn't it. We had our last election? 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.280 We did, Yes, we did. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.639 What's happening in your part of the world, Now, tell 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.120 us about what do we need to know? When we 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:13.080 talk about the South Pacific Islands, you specifically referred to what, well, 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:14.040 the South Pacific. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.880 It's actually vast. I mean that there's basically two different 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.840 parts to it. You've got Melanesia, which is located in 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.200 the north and northeast of Australia. That includes Papua New Guinea, Fiji, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.880 Solomon Islands, Vanawafu and New Caledonia. And then you've got Polynesia. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.280 Now Polynesia stretches right across the vast area of the Pacific. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.280 And then it's huge because it forms a triangle between Hawaii, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:44.160 New Zealand and Easter Ireland. And the country's there include Samoa, Tonga, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:50.280 French Polynesia and the Cook Islands. And so basically we 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.240 just call it the South Pacific because all of it 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:58.880 is based in the South Pacific, and of course for holidaymakers, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.440 particularly Australias, they just love going to the South Pacific. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.760 Now a lot of them will go and do South 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:11.240 Pacific cruises. They're very, very popular, in which instance you 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:18.000 visit a couple of different countries. Typically it's usually say 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:25.840 New Caledonia, Vanawatu, Fiji, because that sort of does about 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.000 a week ten days cruise, and then others just like 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.400 to go and veg out. Now, the thing about the 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.479 South Pacific, whether it be Melanesia or Polynesia, is you 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:42.680 have got some wonderful islands anywhere. I mean there's hundreds 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.279 of them, there's thousands of them. You've got some beautiful beaches, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:52.760 and both the Melanesian and the Polynesian people are just beautiful. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.320 They're gentle, they're kind, they're happy people, and why not 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.720 because they live in a very very gorgeous part of 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:06.120 the world. Yes, and when you go there, you know, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:11.640 you're overwhelmed with kindness and it's just such a great 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.120 place to relax. And of course there's a lot of 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.440 stuff you can do there. I mean, you can just 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:23.920 redg out on a beautiful island somewhere and do basically 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.480 nothing or you can have a lot of adventures. I mean, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.200 you've got things. You've got excellent diving there, whether you 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.880 want to go snorting or scuba diving. You've got brilliant fishing. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.880 You've got some of these islands quite rugged, so you 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.479 can do a little bit of mountain climbing. There's some 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:47.840 sensational volcanoes there if you want to go and look at. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:54.080 In fact, one of the most active volcanoes, most active 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:59.000 approachable volcanoes in the world, is in Vanawatu, and you 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.320 can get up really and personal to that. And so 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:07.760 there's so much to go and see and experience in 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.320 the South Pacific. And because they're different island groups, they've 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:16.760 got different customs, different traditions, et cetera. And the one 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.480 thing all South Pacific islanders seem to do really well 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:27.839 is seeing they're very musical people. They're just amazing. They've 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.360 got these wonderful voices. They can usually pick up a 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.120 guitar or some other instrument and learn to play it 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:40.360 pretty quickly. So it's just a wonderful experience to go there. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:45.039 You relax, you're enjoying another culture, and of course you're 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.840 in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.839 So it really is a wonderful place to go for 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.520 that relaxing holiday, or for that cruise, or if you 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.960 want a bit of adventure to go and you know, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.280 have a unique adventure. I mean some of these places 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.400 you can swing with stingrays and things like that. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.320 That's what we want to do, go and swim with 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:11.600 those rays. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.000 What are we doing today? Well why don't we go 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.000 and rays? 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:23.000 Yeah? Well, look here in Western Australia, people going pa wow, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.520 yeah yeah they do. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.480 Well that yeah, great in a place called Shark Bay. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:33.920 What could possibly go wrong? We stated, Because well we'll 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.640 ask the listener. They know way more about these things 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.680 than you or I do. One double three six ninety three. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.400 So those of you that have traveled around that area. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.600 Pacific Islands, which has grumpies just outlined, includes some incredible places. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.480 Would you include Papuo and New Guinea in that. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.800 I wouldn't. Well, it is actually the largest South Pacific island. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.400 I used to live in pup with New Guinea, but 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.880 that is entirely different experience. I would rate the Solomon 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.080 Islands with Papi New Guinea because they're very very similar, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.280 although part that as Papu Indi Guinea and Solomoni is 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:16.120 a part of Melanesia, which means that they're they're sort 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:21.000 of different to the Polynesians. They're different, different ethnic group. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.440 But you've got Fiji, you've not got New Caledonia, and 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.920 you've also got Vanuatu that are part of Melanesia, and 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:34.840 it gets a bit more exciting. I think they're because 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:42.680 they're certainly in Papua New Guinea. It's extraordinary scenery because 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.120 you've got you've got mountains there that that go up 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.640 to in the old language is over sixteen thousand feet. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.679 When I lived there, I used to I used to 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.160 live at Mount Hagan, and I would be driving the 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.400 track and we'ren'd be going on mountain passes over ten 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.120 thousand for you know. And it's just an extraordinar place. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.400 It rained every day on the at four per years. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.440 Just when you don't need it to raid it every 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:11.880 day for plust before o'clock. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:12.800 It's busy. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.480 One double three six nine three. It is the South 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.840 Pacific on you've been there, been there, done that. Give 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.840 us a call one double three six nine A couple 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:28.720 of quick calls. Maggie, say how to Steve Grumpy Collins. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:39.400 Long Rompy Colins. Now, yeah, cruising in a sense, you're 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:48.160 talking about the number of cruisers in the past. Most 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:55.199 memorable of those cruisers as far as destinations go, perhaps 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.079 would be the Surmours. Back then it was were and 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:09.800 Western and American smart and then honey Hour to visiting 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:15.440 a hospital which was out of final World War two. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:16.000 Hot. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.920 There you go. There's a great piece of their history there, Stephen. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.760 Yeah, it is. And it's interesting about a Samoa because 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.640 Samoa was normally like I'm not talking I'm talking about 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.240 Western Samoa, not not not American Samoa. But Samoa was 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.960 right on the International date Line and it was just 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.360 over the other side of it. So what they did 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.320 was they decided, well, we don't like this, so they 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:52.120 decided that they would move their time, their time and 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.800 put it an hour earlier, so that they were the 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.560 very first country in the world to start the new day. Well, yeah, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.880 they just sort of changed. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.720 Their time as well as it could be the. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.920 First country to get of the day instead of the 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.120 last country of the day. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:12.200 Benny, Thank you, Maggie. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:18.079 Ben, Now you spotted some roadworks for us, So whereabouts. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.800 Can I go? Hey, he's traveling? Well, thank you, Benny, 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.880 you know that the tunnel. The tunnel has got raid 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.960 works on to see that and Dan have just got 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.040 one guy closed down three lanes and just and just 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.600 spray painting the walls. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.080 Okay, So that was happening as I was coming through 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.080 late last night, read about ten thirty and I thought 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:41.840 to myself. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.439 Then I reckon, it's going to go on for a 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.200 good number two or three. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.319 Weeks, two or three weeks. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.119 With the rumor that's on the rumor file. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.680 Though with one person painting? 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:55.959 Can I win the Mercedes? 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:56.880 Please? Too? 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.880 Good on your bed, thank you? In the running that's 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.960 very funny. Can I win the Mercedes for you? Why? 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.440 I think the Breaking program have a great relationship with 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.559 the good people membership of the Berwick Mercedes at of 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.520 Berrika and they do a great job and they've been 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.200 part of the Breaking Program for a long time. So 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.960 it's up for it was one of the rumor files. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:23.079 I think that's very funny. Angela, we've just been talking, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.400 certainly about tas Mania. Angela, you wanted to make a 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.400 comment about Tazzi in the AFL. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.040 Look certainly do Tony. I hope you're feeling. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.000 A little bit better thank you very much, welcome back. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:40.400 I mean we do miss you certainly look up into 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.800 football games stone Blieve. Overall, I've been to football games 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.080 at your back and long Siste and I cannot ever 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:47.679 send the. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.480 Problem by the. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.480 Just assist that they have a game down every probably 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.679 second week in Hobard and then Monny, I don't know 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.960 what I need this idea about the stadium one a 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:09.760 billion another, because it's just trying to stop them giving 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.200 in me. I think, yeah, I'm. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.640 Not too well great. I feel like if. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.280 You're going to get five hundred thousand people wanted to 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:20.880 go to any game, you know what I mean that 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.079 as it's just still being I just thought. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:25.360 You know that. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:32.160 They're putting, you know, silly team in the post before tas. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.280 It's faulty. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.200 It's insulting to people who love a game. It's about 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.079 time they looked at why they're trying to stop the game. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.840 It's a very good, very good point, Angela. You obviously 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.240 love the great apple Isle. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.000 It's all the people I talk to on your wife 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.880 go down to Parliament and fantastic white as you found 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:01.400 out today while they broadcasting, because it's suggesting, look, it's stupid. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.080 For just again it can be well, it's so precious 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:13.599 down there's precious and if you don't. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.240 Yeah, very very good point, Angela. We've got a bit 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.600 of a dodgy line, so I'll let you go. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.120 Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the line whereever it's coming through 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.560 it if you but thank you Ange for that. It 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.840 just goes to the affection that people have. Grumpy for Tasmania. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.200 Oh yes, well, you know it's it's a very popular 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.600 state and particularly for tourism. You know, it's I mean 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:40.280 it's the most compact state in Australia. But it's certainly beautiful. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.440 You know, there's there's certainly a lot. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.800 Of would you know, you've never been there. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.000 I've seen photos. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:48.680 Photos. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.560 She lets me look at her photos every now and then. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:52.680 Totally have a. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.680 Look at my photo album of Tasmania. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:00.320 You've there. That's exactly right, That's that's what I. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.760 So we were just traveling through the beautiful Yeah. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.800 We'll talk about Fiji because that is the most popular 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.960 of the South Pacific islands. What it is for the 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:18.960 for Australians and that's part of Melanesia, but it lies 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.960 about two thousand and Kilbaria's northeast of New Zealand, and 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:29.480 it's an archipelago of more than three hundred and thirty islands. Now, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.480 although it's got you know, the three hundred and thirty islands, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:41.240 only only about one hundred of them have got permanent populations. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.800 And out of that, eighty seven percent of the population 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.600 live on the two biggest islands, which are Vita Levu 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:57.000 and Evanua Levu Levu. And of those, Vita Levu is 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.200 the main island. It's a home to Suva which as 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.520 the capital, and Nandy the main airport which people who 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.840 fly there would have gone to Nandy and it's and 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.720 it's got the majority of the population of all of 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.800 Figi living there. Of course, it's quite a big islands. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.920 It's one of the biggest islands in fig but it's 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.840 a really interesting place. You get your cultural experiences there. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.240 You've got your lux resorts and your golf courses, you've 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.840 got your family resorts. It's great for snorting, diving, surfing. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.880 There's a place called cloud Break which is an internationally 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:41.520 known top surfing spot. And they've got a few other 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.160 little islands that are just off the delivery where you 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.080 can go and I mean that you just catch a 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.720 little boat. There's your resorts sort of thing, and it's 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:56.200 just a fantastic place. But one of the one of 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.160 the popular things to do there. Part of that is 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.840 called the Corals, and it's sort of it's a really 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:07.439 nice drive right down the coast on the on the 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.359 southwest of the island, and there's all these great little 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:16.000 beaches there and there's pockets of stunning coastline and you've 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:20.120 got a lot of family friendly resorts down here, and 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.560 this is where you probably get more of the budget 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.719 sort of resorts, and you've also got some boutique property 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.360 said that are a little bit more expensive. But look, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.359 it's just sort of a very very laid back area. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.199 Great for stork we dive in, surfing, et cetera. And 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.800 of course the resorts you can sit by the pool 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:46.880 and the locals are just friendly, you know. And this 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.520 is but if you want something very up market, Fiji 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:59.040 has got the most up market resorts, and also French Polynesia. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.200 But I'm not going to go to Bench Polynesia tonight 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.399 because it was a bit far or cook far away. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.240 Was just gorgeous, you know. I did the cruise there 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.480 all those years ago on the old fair Sta. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:10.760 Do you remember the first now. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:18.440 I remember the fair Star, yeahship, Yes, well the Fundship first, and. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.040 I did a couple of cruises and my job was 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.639 to play the music on board. 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:25.760 Was it really? 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:27.399 That was my job on the ship? 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.320 Really? You were the DJ? Were you? 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.680 I was the nightclub presenter? 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.879 Well I was. They didn't call you a DJ in 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:36.400 those days. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.399 Load that expression. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.600 Loaded, right, you know you were if you were in 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.440 the sixties. You would have been proud to be a 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.200 DJ in the nineteen sixties. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.360 And your point is, well. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.520 I've just pointed out that you were so much younger 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.160 that you wouldn't have had that experience. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.719 Good on your thanks very much. So it was. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:08.560 The year was seventy eight, seventy nine and Kylie Minogue's manager, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.880 who had a relationship with the good people at Sidmar, said, look, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.800 here's a job. Would you like to spend a couple 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.440 of some time traveling on the Festa? And I said, okay, yes, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.600 and so did. It took me three and a half 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:24.760 years to get over it. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.879 Well, I used to work for p and O the 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:35.200 Modern Medication, and we worked it out. But in those days, 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.880 this was in the nineteen sixties, and seventies that on 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.560 some of these cruisers, women out number of single women 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.359 number single men by about seven to one thirty. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.159 It's one of the reasons I no longer have hair. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.639 We'll do this when we come back. More of you, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.800 more of your course, cap and joined us one double 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.880 three sixty nine, Steve Grumpy Collins. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.800 You want to see some of these texts. Listen to this. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.760 I thought the International dateline went through Tonga. We'll have 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.600 to double check on that, Megan, not too sure. Another 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.679 one doesn't go through Tom's Eastye, of course, thank you. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.920 My favorite holiday destination F one J one Licky Lickyloo 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:20.960 adults only five star resort near Mulo Melo. 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:23.199 M A l o l o. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.520 Yeah, helloo over water looks through the floor you can 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.400 see Kaleidescobafish, obsolutely gorgeous. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.400 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, that's what it's 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:41.840 our specific's all about. Look, it's paradise. Speaking of paradise, 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.560 we're going to go to Vanawatu now our next one, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.520 which is sort of north of THREEG. But do you 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:54.440 remember in the sixties a TV show called Adventures in Paradise. 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.240 I do Gard McKay played Adam. 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.440 Troy did Adam Troy Yep, yep. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.040 Now you'd be surprised to know that most of that 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:10.880 was actually filled with California, But Vaneratu featured a lot. 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.240 It wasn't called Vanuatu. It was called the Wallace and 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:17.600 Ellis Islands or something. Then became Valawatu after that because 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:23.560 it was sort of both French and British colonies that 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.879 combined when it became Vanauatu. But that is one place 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.520 in the world where you can actually get up, real 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:38.160 up close to an actual volcano. It's called the volcano 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:42.159 is called Mount Yassur, and it's on Canna Island and 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.520 it's one of the most accessible active volcanoes in the world. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.000 And one of the best places times to go is 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.920 just on dusk because when it gets dark you see 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:58.080 all the red glow from inside the crater and it 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.640 spits out a bit of lava. But that they keep 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.280 your will back from that. That's one of the great adventures. 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.359 But the other one that the reason I pitched Adventures 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:10.280 in Paradise. There was one you've heard of land diving, 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.920 you know, where these guys got up that it was. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:19.240 It was a precursor to bungee junkie jumping. They used 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:25.199 to climb up these massive bamboo tower tie vines to 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.719 their ankles and leap off a lot of I remember 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.200 one episode where they filmed it there. Well, that wasn't 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:36.640 probably them, was probably Lowell Thomas, another famous travel journalist 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.400 who used to go there. But that is in Vanahatu, 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.280 and that's on an island called Pentecost Island, and that 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.040 is a tradition still a tradition today. What they do 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:51.720 is you start off as a as a child, it's 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:56.160 funny for males, and you leap off from the lower 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.119 the lower bridges because they have all these they like 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.879 diving boards, and you walk on that and you and 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.080 you leap off. And what they do is they soften 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.800 the soilters. The whole point as it is to just 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.160 drag your head on the soil and then bounce back 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:17.080 up again without hurting yourself, and then as you get 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:21.719 older and braver than you go higher up the tower. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:26.560 Absolutely fascinating. But they still do that today and you 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:28.960 can actually go and see that in real life on 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:32.840 Vaniwatu if you want very exciting place. But the capital 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:38.320 of vaner Wuardo is Port Villa and that's that's a 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:40.800 it's a fairly quiet place. It's got a it's got 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:45.679 a massive harbor there. And what are the features of 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:50.320 the harbor is it's got an underwater post box. 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.119 And what you do is you get a water We 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:54.000 all need one. 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.400 Of them, we do. And you, well, my son sent 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:01.240 me a postcard from this you dove down. I don't 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:03.639 know how deep it is and you dive down and 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:08.320 you post send off this postcard and I send them 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.800 all over the world. Absolutely fantastic place. But there's a 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:13.359 lot to do there because there was a lot of 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:18.880 adventures du tourists, oh yeah, and gorgeous rivers and stuff 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:21.399 like that. It used to be whether it was a 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:22.880 new hebides what it was. 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:23.600 Called, that's the one. 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:28.919 Yes, my recollection of that of that port was it 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.680 was pretty good for duty free purchase. 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:35.159 But it still is, yeah, yeah, I think it is. 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.760 That's that there's basically only one main road in Portvilla. 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.840 It's sort of like a big long road along the harbor. 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:44.560 But yeah, it used to be good for duty free, 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:50.240 probably still is because they do depend on tourism a lot. 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:55.360 And there's an island in the harbor that a lot 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:57.479