It’s been labeled the finest walk in the world – and after completing our five day, 33.5 mile journey, we just might agree. The Milford Track is just one of the many Great Walks here in New Zealand and until now we have only committed to day hikes (no camping for us). We hoped this Read More »
We spent day before out trek packing our bags and as we were taking our day packs this was quite an operation(look at photo’s to see most of stuff was hanging off back our bag)! On the morning of the trek we took our car for its MoT (which we needed to sell it) – Read More »
Hey Dudes – Just a quickie we are covering so much ground there is hardly time to stop and treat myself to a bit of internet blogging I usually just get time to surf for a bit of local information and off we go again! So we headed off from Rotorua over a week ago Read More »
On Monday 30th we travelled to Paihia and booked into the Bay Sands motel for just one night. We thought about staying two nights but the traffic was so noisy at night we settled for just the one! We walked the beaches and generally had a very lazy day, The weather was quite good, although Read More »
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Ok – so the weather has not let up since i have arrived, with the exception of one day where i decided to get myself so sunburnt that i can only now sit on my thighs comfortably 4 days later. i only missed one part of my body with cream! Other than that it has Read More »
Kia Ora! I arrived in New Zealand on Friday and went on a two-days paleontological excursion with Michael. After working at the Uni we always drive down to the beach to take a look at this stunning ecosystem and its inhabitants. We even saw three yellow eyed penguins, one of the most rarest penguins! Anyway, Read More »
Taupo was one of those identicate NZ towns with the same old shops in and stuff. I’d like to say the fact it was next to a whopping great lake set it apart from other towns I’d been to, but they all seem to have their own affilitated natural wonder. It was more of a Read More »
After yesterdays Manic day we were really in no rush to get out and about early today, yet the Sun did its usual trick of waking us up and at 0930 we To Signal for help, not for potential Goat Rapists were up and getting showered. we Drove out of the Camp two very happy Read More »
12th: Arrived about 5.30pm, and a group of us headed straight out again for a Maori Cultural experience…with pretty much no idea what we were letting ourselves in for! Were taken out by bus to the Tamaki Maori Village…a ”chief” was selected for our ”tribe” (bus)…well technically 2 chiefs- Pete from our Stray group and Read More »
