By Jerome Quinto
Contributor
On board the PR 211 cabin, I was seated face-to-face with an LCD screen, which lacks the brilliance and clarity of one. At first glance, I knew that the screen won’t produce a stunning picture. The images flashed were smudge with pinkish light stains and were high in brightness and contrast. In short, it was not worth viewing at all.
By Jerome Quinto, Contributor
INQUIRER.net
I’VE always thought that a trip to Australia is as easy as climbing down a flight of staircases. Well, if a million steps down a thousand-storey building is for you a snap, the former rings true — for you.
For a Filipino (with the Pinoy passport, of course), going to Australia, or any developed country for that matter, starts with getting a visa. Well this wasn’t a problem for me, though preparing the papers needed to get the visa is a hassle. Not to mention the agony of the waiting period where I’m caught between being prepared for the trip and likewise uncertain for I don’t know whether I’m getting a visa or not. Good thing the dilemma wasn’t that long. Just about three weeks (compared to a month or more for most).
I don’t intend to plot in detail the pre-departure process. Suffice it to say that IT IS NOT EASY and one should consider so many factors before one’s flight. So how did I get “Down Under”?
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
IT was simply the hugest beach I have ever seen in my entire life. Boracay Beach isn’t even half the size of the beachfront at Surfer’s Paradise, the most popular stop in Gold Coast.
This is how it looks like once you step into the beach at Surfer’s Paradise. Notice how long the stretch of sand is before it breaks into the sea. The waves are simply astounding — no wonder they call it Surfer’s Paradise. I can spend an entire day just listening to the crashing waves.
After much prodding, I had to take a dip. Lunita, a fellow journalist from Singapore and an avid surfer, said it’s a must that anyone who visits the Coast should at least “be one” with the ocean by dipping one’s feet in the water. Our plan was to get in the ocean but we got there late and it was a bloody cold spring night, and the strong waves made me think otherwise. The waves are so strong you need to be a strong swimmer or else the undertow might throw you back into the sea.
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
WHAT’S the difference between alligators and crocodiles? Apparently not so much says this guy at Hartley’s Creek Crocodile Farm in Cairns.
The video below shows him feeding these nasty-looking crocs while telling us guests a thing or two about these reptiles.
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
ON A TRIP to Cairns over the weekend, Systimax treated us journalists to a trip to the Great Barrier Reef. To an avid scuba diver, this sure sounds like heaven. I’m not a certified diver, but once we were told we could do some snorkeling… man, this is the Great Barrier Reef!
To get close to the reef, we hopped on a boat from that would take us to Green Island. You could tell from the above picture it was early morning, people sipping coffee to go with some excellent hot muffins. Two hours on a boat sounds like fun, but not totally for seasick chumps like me.
