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Sun, 14 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [672] | 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 [629] | 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 [864] | 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 [731] | 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 [828] | 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 [626] | 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 [710]
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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Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By anijensen | Views [1155] | Comments [4]
We woke this morning with a fabulous view of the islands off of the coast of Hahei and the sun streaming in our window. Breakfast was scrambled and bacon with toast, quite delicious, cooked in the microwave! Amazing. We left around 8:45 and ... Read more >
Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By locomocean | Photo Gallery
From Russell to Wanganui
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Sun, 31 Oct 2010 | By anijensen | Views [5958] | Comments [2]
Our kayaking trip to Cathedral Cove was canceled last night due to expected high morning winds, so we changed our plans and planned on heading out early to enjoy the thermal pools at Hot Water Beach. Low tide was at 7:00, and for two hours on ... Read more >
Sat, 30 Oct 2010 | By anijensen | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 30 Oct 2010 | By anijensen | Views [897] | Comments [1]
We arrived in Auckland, after a total of 18 hours in flight and an 8 hour layover in Honolulu. The airport and surrounding area is so new, nothing seems old so it is very different from most of the other countries we’ve been to. Auckland is very ... Read more >
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