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ASocialNomad

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I'm one half of ASocialNomad - been travelling since May 2014, I walk, take local transport, eat local and enjoy the cultural aspects of visiting new places. That, of course and the local beer and wine! I love sailing, skiing and scuba diving.
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View in an ice cave

Fox Glacier, New Zealand

Fox Glacier

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Takapō (Lake Tekapo)

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

Takapō (Lake Tekapo)

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

Milford Sound, New Zealand

Milford Sound

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Waitomo, New Zealand

Waitomo, New Zealand

Waitomo Glowworm Caves

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Hobbiton

Matamata, New Zealand

Hobbiton

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for ā€œThe Hobbitā€ film series.

Model of Skylab outside Esperance Museum.

Esperance, Australia

Skylab’s Remains

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour. (Wikimedia Commons)

Coffs Harbour, Australia

Big Banana

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Cloaca machine at MONA

Berriedale, Australia

Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Famous marker of a Queensland farm (Flickr/marj k)

Woombye, Australia

The Big Pineapple

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

Port Arthur Penitentiary

Port Arthur, Australia

Port Arthur Penal Colony

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Franz Josef Glacier

South Island, New Zealand

Franz Josef Glacier

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Pancake Rocks

Punakaiki, New Zealand

Pancake Rocks

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Baldwin Street

Dunedin, New Zealand

Baldwin Street Houses

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

The Steampunk HQ zeppelin.

Oamaru, New Zealand

Steampunk HQ

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

The Moeraki Boulders at sunrise. (Wikimedia Commons)

Hampden, New Zealand

Moeraki Boulders

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Welcome to Wycliffe Well
Permanently Closed

Davenport, Australia

Wycliffe Well

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.

(Flickr/F.d.W.)

Davenport, Australia

Devil's Marbles

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Three Sisters

Katoomba, Australia

Three Sisters

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Twelve Apostles March 2019

Princetown, Australia

The Twelve Apostles

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Magnetic Island, at Horseshoe Bay.

Magnetic Island, Australia

Magnetic Island

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

The Big Mango

Bowen, Australia

The Big Mango

One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.

Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement

Eaglehawk Neck, Australia

Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Crocodile Harry's Underground Nest & Dugout

Coober Pedy, Australia

Crocodile Harry's Underground Nest & Dugout

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

Sign announcing the Dingo Fence

Mount Barry, Australia

Dingo Fence

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

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