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9 April 2011
Today we flew down to Dunedin … Edinburgh of the South, as it is New Zealand’s most Scottish city. As we approached the town centre, the shuttle driver told us that the railway station was the second most photographed building in the world! Hhmmm! So, it is more photographed than the Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower […]
13 March 2011
With an evening flight back to Auckland, we had a lazy day and went out briefly to the Riwaka Resurgence. That’s where the Riwaka River comes out from under the ground. Beautiful clear water but I think it would be too cold for me.
12 March 2011
We woke early and rang the kayaking company. It’s still all on, regardless of the tsunami warning … we later understood that Civil Defence’s expectations was that it would affect the North Island more (the TV showed some surges in Northland when we went back at the end of the day). We had booked the […]
11 March 2011
Sea kayaking is something I’ve always wanted to try out … well, not quite always … since I saw the beautiful green waters of the Abel Tasman National Park. We flew down to Nelson in the evening and drove to Motueka where we stayed with family friends. We arrived to hear about the big earthquake […]
20 February 2011
In between the various events at the Art Deco festival, I had some spare time. So I decided to go swim with sharks in the National Aquarium. I checked out the pricing and it wasn’t too bad compared to just a walk-in visitor. I was led up to the backroom where I donned a thick […]
5 April 2010
Thanks to the switch from Daylight Saving back to Standard Time, it wasn’t too hard to wake up for our 7am flight from Hokitika to Christchurch connecting to Auckland.
4 April 2010
From Hokitika we drove down to the two Glaciers … Franz Josef and Fox. Actually there are many more glaciers but these are the two that are open to visitors and managed by the Department of Conservation (with marked walking tracks etc for safety). While glaciers are pretty, the rivers that run from them aren’t […]
3 April 2010
We drove from Picton to Hokitika today to set ourselves up for the glaciers tomorrow. The road trip would have been 5 hours non-stop but naturally we stopped a little bit to take in the scenic beauty. We picked up a hitch hiker Phil from Germany who was bound for Greymouth (in our direction). He […]
2 April 2010
It was meant to be an early morning start out of Auckland but we found out that the flight to Blenheim on the bigger plane was full …. one of the complications of using staff standby tickets. We managed to get on the 11:15 flight on a smaller and fully-packed aircraft, affording us a leisurely […]