![]() ![]() ![]() You are given 21 days to navigate across Australia with a potential of 7 additional days to unlock. The exception to this is if you mark in your options, but no one likes a cheater. Once pressed the button will receive a cooldown and cannot be used for that duration. Even though the button administers a negative amount to your score, you reduce a higher potential loss of points with certainty of item retrieval. Just in case you feel to hunt items with that sporadic finger, a suggestive offer would be to first try the hint button. Finding all of the described objects will complete a level and continue your vacation to the next selectable venue. Depending on the options selected, your overall score may be affected by having an aggressive clicking spree. Designed as a hidden object game for the PC, players can ultimately point and click in any area of a given scene to find items. The idea behind Vacation Quest: Australia is to identify key items on the map by words or clues. Glimpses of a mystical adventure to the Great Barrier Reef can be noted, but the yielding experience of bathing boxes is less than magical. While distinctly showing off some of the major sites of Australia, the game does not show the continent’s full beauty nor imminent danger throughout each scene. I have often expected moving environments and 3D visuals to capture my attention, but the stillness featured by each scene can be mesmerizing. ![]() I had made it to three island countries in the Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.Knowing very well Vacation Quest: Australia was a hidden object adventure, I was not prepared to appreciate its simplistic nature. OK, small isn’t the word: they were tiny.Īll of them were interesting in their own way, if a bit small. There is literally one road in Majuru, the capital of the Marshall Islands. Someone wrote me and said they had spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. What did I think of it? I said it was nice enough, but would have been a long two years for me.Īfter that I had a side trip to Uzbekistan, which greatly exceeded expectations. I went for a long run and wandered, feeling like my old traveling self. Then I flew on to Brisbane, Australia-a major country I’d never made it to for some reason. Yep, I’m well over 150 countries now, but had never been Down Under. I had hoped to do a book tour in Oz this year, but it’s been pushed into 2012.Īt any rate, my visit to Brisbane was only transit-I was going on to Nauru-so because Australia is such a special place, I wasn’t going to count such a short stop as a country visit. The plan was to put it off until I could appreciate it properly, the theory being that I’ll count a short stop in Micronesia as a country visit, but not one in the great Australia.Īfter a fun day trip in the city (I actually played the role of tourist for once), I pulled up to the counter of “Our Airline” in BNE airport. Yes, the airline is actually called Our Airline-it’s on the shortlist for “most random airline name” in the world. I was glad that everything had gone so well on this trip. Four new countries! Getting so many at one time is tough for me these days, with less than thirty to go. And now I’d be going to my fifth, and a difficult one at that. Most people haven’t heard much about Nauru. You can get the gist of it here-in short, it’s the world’s smallest island that is also a country. About 7,000 people live there, and as I soon discovered, less than ten people visit on the average week. I said hello to the friendly Our Airline representative. I might travel with vodka in 3-ounce bottles on occasion, but I’d never, ever check a bag. That’s when I realized I had a BIG problem. A visa for Nauru? No visa, no boarding pass? You’re kidding. “Visa not required … but actually it is.” You can see what they said about tourist visas and Nauru in this screenshot: Of course this was all my fault, but I had at least dutifully checked with my visa service before leaving on the trip. ![]()
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