September 14, 2025
The BeiJing Summer of 2008 Olympics have stuck in my memory for years - and I really wanted to see it at night all lite up!
The Bird's Nest and Water Cube were 2 of the coolest building designs, especially the lighting elements of them, I remember from an Olympics! This was the summer we all met Michael Phelps and Call me Maybe was a huge hit, and I could help singing it as we strolled the grounds. The village was used again partial with the Winter Olympics in 2022 and that was the introduction of Mascots Shuey Rhon Rhon for Paralympics and Bing Dwen Dwen ( both below).
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Monday April 6th is another travel day for us on our destination to remote Raja Ampat . We started the day at 5am to make our 7am flight from Denpasar, Bali to Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in South Sulawesi for our brief layover to connect with our flight onto Sorong, Indonesia.
Easter turned out to be a travel day for Bosco and I as we were extremely limited in when we could be seen by the Australian Border Control to disembark from the Ship, for a scuba diving adventure in Raja Ampat that I have had reserved, for over 18 months! We flew from Perth to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Easter afternoon.
I have been really excited to get to Fremantle / Perth for my first time. I have had a few friends live here over the years and I have a second cousin, James Murphy, who I have only ever spoken too briefly, over the last 35 years and that I would love to meet in person. Jim is the older brother of Paul who I met up with in Melbourne a few weeks ago.