Google Maps Kayaking Directions
Every now and again Google Maps driving directions throws a curve-ball into a suggested route.
If you ask Google Maps for the driving directions from Sydney Airport to 200 Stanmore Rd, Stanmore, NSW 2048, Australia (Newington College) Step 48 suggests that you Kayak across the Pacific Ocean to Australia. The estimated length of this journey is 43 days and 6 hours, but I understand if you catch the North Equatorial Current you can seriously cut into that time.
These directions could have been useful for Emma Nunn and Raoul Christian from the UK who booked flights for what they thought was Sydney, Australia but ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Instead of a holiday on the sunny beaches of Sydney, New South Wales they ended up in a cold former mining town in Canada. However they did say they enjoyed looking at the 'pick-up trucks'. You can read more of this story at the BBC website (credit Bill Lee).
If you ask Google Maps for the driving directions from Sydney Airport to 200 Stanmore Rd, Stanmore, NSW 2048, Australia (Newington College) Step 48 suggests that you Kayak across the Pacific Ocean to Australia. The estimated length of this journey is 43 days and 6 hours, but I understand if you catch the North Equatorial Current you can seriously cut into that time.
These directions could have been useful for Emma Nunn and Raoul Christian from the UK who booked flights for what they thought was Sydney, Australia but ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Instead of a holiday on the sunny beaches of Sydney, New South Wales they ended up in a cold former mining town in Canada. However they did say they enjoyed looking at the 'pick-up trucks'. You can read more of this story at the BBC website (credit Bill Lee).
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One is a vibrant gaelic cultural centre, the other is a poor backwater to the metropolitan Melbourne.
At least they could have gone from the Sidney (B.C., Canada) airport (Patricia Bay Airport/ Victoria B.C.
Airport) just over on the west coast and had an easier time of it.
Old news story of British tourists from London getting on a plane, and after a stop over in Halifax getting to
Sydney and wondering why it was so cold. Didn't like cod, nor coal it seemed, but the beaches and tar ponds were
fine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2172858.stm
another here (auf Deutsch)
http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,531572,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darwin_disappearance_case
Google maps gave me directions from Launceston, Tasmania to Hobart, Indiana.
The directions included three kayak legs - one from Darwin to Japan, another from Japan to Hawaii and the final leg from Hawaii to Washington.
This, by far beats Andy up above.
Cheers :)
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Hope the link works.
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because then you could go forever
back and forth
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45000 KM! :-)