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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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I stayed in Cooinda. Again, like Kings Canyon, one
accomidation place provided both the normal (expensive) and youth hostel
(A$15) rooms. I opted for a hostel room, and they turned out to be tiny
2-person shacks, but because the rainy season never gets busy, I wound up
getting a shack to myself. It was adequate except for the fact that the
roofs were metal, and when the rain started to come down at night, the noise
was so loud, it was virtually impossible to sleep.
Because it was Christas Day, the only food avialable that evening other
than snacks was an expensive Christmas Dinner (I opted for the snacks).
There wasn't much to do in the evening except hang around the covered dining
area. A family from New Zealand (Wellington), saw that I was alone, and
asked if I wanted to join them. This turned into a very interesting, long
evening of conversation.
The family (the parents and three daughters) was visiting Australia from
New Zealand, seeing the country in a motorhome. Their next stop was to be
the Gulf of Carpentaria, though cyclone warnings had just been posted for
that area. The wife was involved in New Zealand film production, so we
talked a bit about that (since I'm a film buff, and often play on movie
soundtracks). I found out that "The Frighteners" with Michael J. Fox was
filmed in New Zealand (with a NZ director), and that people wanted to work
on Hercules and Xena (both filmed in NZ) because the actors were paid in
U.S. dollars instead of New Zealand dollars. Film production in NZ is very
small, and always on the smallest of budgets, though Steven Speilberg will
film part of the Jurassic Park sequel in New Zealand (Sam Neil, who was in
Jurassic Park, is from New Zealand). The daughters (high-school aged)
didn't understand why American movies were so hollow, especially on story
and characterization, ...

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