New Zealand

Another short stopover, only for two days.
Just enough time to make some test contacts with the new equipment.
All went well, we even had some nice openings to Europe with a little windom antenna installed at the balcony.

Claudia operating ZL0AAF

The Pacific Inn near Auckland

View direction Europe, just a few kilometers to go :-)

Part of the equipment used

Fiji-Island

More than a week after we departed from Germany the fun started.
After some trouble with the imigration custums, they where concerned about our equipment, things went very smooth.
We got our licences handed over in Nandi and started operation from the Seashell Cove Resort right away.

The shack at the Seashell Cove Resort

Seafront view with HF6V Vertical

At work as 3D2BW

Around the beach

Just around the corner of our cottage

Mainstreet of Nandi, capital of the Fiji-Islands

South Cook-Islands

What a friendly welcome!
Clearing the customs: 5 minutes
Booking a room at the Tiare Village Motel: another 5 minutes
Licensing the next day: You guess, 5 minutes.

ZK1XC licence

Claudia at the operating desk

Cottage with antenna

Little recreation between pileups

Just one more beachside view

Downtown Avarua, the capital of the Cook-Islands

Western Samoa

After we had to cancel our plans to visit the North-Cook-Islands
(These days there where no regular fligths, and the shipping company sold
one of their two ships and tried to move Manihiki atoll a bit more to the north with the other one...
Total of ships left = 0 :-), we decided to move to Western-Samoa instead.
Fligth was booked (Well, 10 minutes this time) and off we where on the way to 5W1.

Aproching Western-Samoa

As we arrived late Saturday afternoon, we had to wait until Monday for the licence.

Another HF6V antenna setup

At work as 5W1UY, together with the second operator

Claudia working the pileup as 5W1YL

A fahle, a typical house on Samoa

Village in Samoa

Market hall in Apia, the capital

Downtown Apia, Sunday afternoon at rush hour

Bussines talk's at the beachfront

French Polynesia - Moorea / Tahiti

Our last stop in the South Pacific we reached after a short stopover in Rarotonga, returning from Western Samoa.
We decided to spent a week on Moreea-Island and so the next day we were on the air again
from a very nice place called 'Les Tipaniers

Beachfront

Scenerie at Moorea

Moonlight antenna

FO/HB9CUY at the operating desk

A view nearby our hotel

On the ferry to Tahiti

Paul, F6EXV at the station of FO5JV

Such views realy make it hard to say farewell ...

U.S.A - Los Angeles / Long Beach

What a difference after more than four weeks on remote islands!!
Highways, Interstates, Holywood Boolevard after some hours in LA we run away to Long Beach
which was a bit more quiet to spent our last few days of this trip.

Downtown LA

Our cottage in Long Beach

View of 'Queen Mary'

Radio room of 'Queen Mary'

Homebound

Six weeks travelling, fligths once around the world, an experience I'll never will forget.

Takeoff in LAX

The final greeting to all Ham's who worked us during this trip