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Norfolk Island Social Ballroom Dancing Week

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Norfolk Island Social Ballroom Dancing Week 2018

It’s been 3 months since we farewelled everyone from June’s Social Ballroom Dancing Week. If you were lucky enough to be a participant, we hope that the memories are still fresh bringing a smile to your face and a tap in your toes!

The Norfolk Island Travel Centre is now very pleased to present details of the 2018 Social Ballroom Dancing Week and hope that dancers will join the Norfolk Island Social Ballroom Dancing Committee and dancing friends for this wonderful week. The dates for 2018 are 17-22 June and once again Tanya Kershaw and Jan Lawrence will be leading tutors.

Every year this event includes a fabulous themed night and in 2018 the theme is Jungle Safari – we can only imagine the wild creations that will appear at Rawson Hall next June. For those who may have enquired, but have never travelled for this week before, we would just like to say there is no need to hesitate you really will have a Ball! With limited spaces and heavy bookings however our best suggestion is to reserve your place as soon as you can.

Contact Jannise Witt at jannise@travelcentre.nf or on 1800 1400 66 for 7 night Holiday Package details or any further enquiries. Don’t forget - non-dancing partners and friends will have plenty to see and do while you are dancing, please ask Jannise for a copy of our Tours & Activities book or go to https://www.norfolkislandtravelcentre.com/tours-activities

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NOC the Rock

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Kings Tours visit Norfolk Island

It was wonderful to welcome Rod King of Kings of Newcastle Coach Tours & Travel escorting 27 Newcastle region based visitors on a Norfolk Island holiday. Kings Coaches have travelled to Norfolk Island many, many times over the years, initially escorted by Rod’s parents and founders of the business, Grahame and Helen and since their retirement by Rod and his wife Amanda.

Staying at Paradise Hotel & Resort the group are having had a busy week of touring and travelling around the Island. By the time Rod and his group depart on Monday they will certainly have seen the best Norfolk has to offer!

Starting their touring last Tuesday, an orientation to the Island was gained on a half day tour. Dinner that night at Castaway Hotel was followed by the drama of the Sound and Light Show. Visiting the 4 Norfolk Island Museums during Tag-A-Long tours across two mornings has been complimented with an Interesting Places Tour and relaxing Culla & Co Horse and Carriage Tour. Today they group will enjoy a Breakfast Bushwalk and Island Culture Tour and on Sunday the wonderful Cyclorama. During the evenings many delicious meals have been consumed including an Island Cuisine Tasting Table Dinner, Island Fish Fry and Night as a Convict Dinner. After dinner at the RSL tonight, we’re sure Wonderland by Night will be a treat, as will tomorrow nights’ final meal at a Clifftop Dinner at Bedrock.

On behalf of Jannise, Rebecca and all the team at the Norfolk Island Travel Centre we say thank you to Rod and his group for visiting our island and travelling in conjunction with us. We wish you a safe trip home on Monday and hope to see you back on-Island again one day soon.

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Take a Norfolk Island Trip That Matters

So many of us come home from a holiday with a deep desire to just go back!

Not many of us however are so inspired that we return within months, but this is exactly what Di, a recent volunteer on a Norfolk Island Wildmob trip has done. Di’s ‘holiday’ also challenges our conventional view of what we should do with precious vacation time as you discover she was volunteering her time to weed invasive species on Reserves and private properties around the Island, undertake bird counts and other bush restoration activities as a member of a Wildmob trip.

‘Get wild. Do things that matter’ is the tag lines of Wildmob, a not-for-profit, non-political organisation who takes volunteers on adventures to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Their Norfolk Island Project focuses on bush-land restoration to improve habitat for over 55 threatened or endangered species and up to 18 species of seabirds that breed within Norfolk, Phillip and Nepean Islands.

While most holiday-goers to Norfolk Island don’t spend their time weeding, they also won’t have the opportunity to go onto private properties or engage so much with locals and our environment. Another member of Di’s group was thrilled with the interactive and social aspects of the week – particularly in comparison to other conservation projects she has worked on. To see what it’s all about check out this Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/I6r8XjqQ6To

Joining a Wildmob Conservation trip really proves the saying ‘the more you give the more you get’. There is one more trip scheduled for early October this year (limited spaces still available) and a trip in April and July in 2018. Contact Joyce at Norfolk Island Travel Centre for details and enquiries at joyce@travelcentre.nf or see https://www.norfolkislandtravelcentre.com/?s=Wildmob

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Spring Ukulele Festival

The Norfolk Island Travel Centre was thrilled this week to welcome 60 visiting ukulele players travelling to Norfolk to participate in the Spring Norfolk Island Ukulele Festival. Their hosts the Norfolk Island Uke Band led by Don Reynolds have presented a week of playing, learning and performing mixed together with terrific meals, socialising and activities.

We hope that playing uke’s at places such as the Sunday markets, beside the sparkling waters at Emily Bay, at Kingston’s Old Government House site, during the Yuukalieli Showcase at Rawson Hall, at the farewell night dressed in Rock & Roll fancy dress and during workshops at Tampali have been not only entertaining but inspiring.

The cultural mix of this Festival is fantastic. Aussies, Kiwi’s and Norfolk Islanders have all exchanged music, cultural traditions, languages, singing and dancing this week. It’s hard to think of a more enjoyable holiday than attending a Norfolk Island Ukulele Festival! We wish all the players a safe trip home and hope to see you back, with your uke, on Norfolk Island again one day soon.

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Southern Lightscapes tour with Ian Rolfe

It’s no wonder that Ian Rolfe’s 2017 Norfolk Island tour was sold out months ago. Ian, a Master of Photography, professional photographer, multi-award winner and author of ‘Norfolk Island Ian Rolfe Photography’ – is also a fabulous photography teacher. Add this to the fact that this is his 15^th trip to the Island, so he really knows the Island’s best spots to follow the sun and stars around the island. His passion for Norfolk Island is summed up with his comment “I love Norfolk Island and it’s assuredly my favourite South Pacific destination”.

The sixteen lucky photographers on this trip are spending 12 days indulging their passion and enthusiasm for photography. Together they have been capturing first morning light, afternoon shadows and dusky evenings against a back drop of Kingston’s historic buildings, craggy cliff-tops, lush green valleys, majestic pine trees and sparkling waters. At night they have braved the cemetery to take time-lapse photos of the evening sky, then risen early the next morning to capture the changing dawn light from Queen Elizabeth lookout. Time –lapse photography is a passion of Ian’s and judging by the stunning footage he showed Norfolk Island Travel Centre staff, his students must be filled with awe and enthusiasm for the technique.

As if all this is not enough, each evening Ian has critiqued photos taken that day and taught enhancement techniques in Photoshop sessions. Of course the group have had some down time from taking photos when they’ve enjoyed a number of tours and dinners around the Island.

Ian had a special surprise for Rebecca Christan and the Norfolk Island Travel Centre this year. While NITC’s new premises already have Ian’s photos on the walls, he presented Rebecca with a special set of unique metallic finish prints of Norfolk Island scenes. These stunning prints will be proudly framed and hung throughout the office and will no doubt become an amazing showcase of the Island’s beauty for all our office visitors. An extraordinarily generous and beautiful gift indeed.

Ian and his group have another week left to still photograph the Island and enjoy their holiday. We hope that the weather remains as beautiful as this week and you are all inspired by the amazing beauty of our island.

Copies of Ian’s book ‘Norfolk Island Ian Rolfe Photography’ are still available at the Norfolk Island Travel Centre office opposite the RSL and sell for $59. They are a beautiful coffee table book and an excellent present for friends and family both on and off-Island. We have a limited number of personally signed copies by Ian, please call in to view a copy.

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Green Travel Concepts visit Norfolk Island

It was wonderful to welcome this week Vanessa from Green Travel Concepts escorting 8 South Australian travellers on a tour of Norfolk Island. Designed as a small group tour, Green Travel Concepts organised an itinerary to capture a varied week of experiences, tours and meals.

Staying at Paradise Hotel the group have ventured out each day to so far enjoy Fletcher’s Mutiny Cyclorama, Norfolk Today tour, Pitcairn Settlers Village, Behind the Hedges tour and Colleen McCullough Home tour. Today and tomorrow we know they’ll also love joining the Island Culture tour and Convict Settlement tour; and during the evenings the Sound and Light tour and Murder Mystery Dinner. Other evening entertainment has included an Island Fish Fry, Hilli Restaurant, Mutiny on the Bounty Show and Pizza Dinner at Castaway.

We hope that when Vanessa and her group depart on Monday to begin their journey home, after having seen and experienced so much of our island, that they feel like they’ve really had a very special Green Travel Concepts Norfolk Island holiday. On behalf of Jannise and all the team at the Norfolk Island Travel Centre we wish you a safe trip home and hope to welcome you back one day soon.