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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 | By justinecutler | Views [667]
Well, it's only been five months since I promised I'd start a blog. We're off to Sierra Leone and by now life in New Zealand has become status quo - but let me give a brief catch-up. Leaving San Francisco : The three days before we left ... Read more >
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [721] | Comments [1]
First, we enjoyed a leisurely day of driving from the Mount Cook area to Queenstown. We had coffee a couple of times on the way, bought a possum and sheep wool hat, and some fresh salmon at a farm. The scenery just got prettier and prettier as we approached ... Read more >
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 | By affyharris1 | Views [526]
Hi all
Sorry its been so long since my last installment, I have been having such a great time,
I arrived in NZ glowing from the fiji sun, not too pink (thank God for factor 50!) and was met by James and Amy Ridapth, amazing people and friends ... Read more >
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 | By locomocean | Views [841]
Diner to Taupo: It was 30th October 2010. We had finally left the Diner, a day later than planned, with the car packed to the roof; we halted at the exit and filmed this momentous occasion – at the very point in time we had envisaged for so ... Read more >
Tags: taupo, victoria park, wanganui, wellington, wind turbine
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [874] | Comments [3]
On the way to Mount Cook, we began to see spectacular views of the New Zealand alpine areas, which were used as the scenery for Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies. We drove several miles up a dirt road into a gorgeous river valley ... Read more >
Sun, 14 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [697] | Comments [2]
We left Kaiteriteri in the Abel Tasman National park (on the northwest coast of the South Island) and headed east back to the Pacific coast. On the way, we drove through a couple of river valleys that must have thousands of acres of huge vineyards—much ... Read more >
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [640] | Comments [1]
Well…the car retrieval in Picton did not go as smoothly as we would have liked. It seems that the Wellington rental car folks never bothered shipping the car. We arrived at the wharf in Picton around 4:30 pm after having walked about 12 miles ... Read more >
Tue, 9 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [881] | Comments [6]
On Sunday morning, we flew in a small 10-seater from Wellington on the North Island, to Picton on the South Island. From Picton, we took a water taxi to our walking start point, at Ship's Cove near the mouth of Queen Charlotte's Sound. Captain Cook ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [751] | Comments [2]
Woke up to a rainy day in Tongariro and drove about 84 K to Pipiriki. We caught the jet boat and drove up the Whanganui river for about 2 hours to the Bridge to Nowhere. It was a very scenic boat ride with rising cliffs on either side of the river.... Read more >
Fri, 5 Nov 2010 | By locomocean | Photo Gallery
Our beautiful capital city
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Thu, 4 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [874] | Comments [2]
We were supposed to do the Tangariro Alpine crossing which consisted of walking over the top of three mountain tops, but due to the weather we had to adjust our plan. The snow was down to 1200 meters and we didn’t want to have to fool with any extreme ... Read more >
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [647] | Comments [5]
Today we drove south from Rotorua to the Tongariro National Park. On the way, we stopped at an area of intense geo-thermal activity called the Wai-O-Tapu Geothermal Preserve, an amazing landscape of pools, streams, and bubbling mud, all reeking ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [751]
We started the morning with breakfast in our room, then a 1.5 hour boat ride out to White Island, New Zealand’s only active marine volcano. 300 meters of the volcano is above sea level, and we took the dinghy ashore and walked around the floor of ... Read more >
Tue, 2 Nov 2010 | By bettedarling | Photo Gallery
Auckland, Wellington, Queenstown, Banks Peninsula
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Tue, 2 Nov 2010 | By locomocean | Photo Gallery
The beautiful city of Wanganui
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