Destination: New Zealand

Middle Earth

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 | By cjmurdoch | Views [782] | Comments [4]

New Zealand is the most beautiful country on earth.   With its endless snowcapped mountains and unspoiled countryside in every direction its easy to see why they chose to film Lord Of The Rings here for its otherworldly quality.   Its actually hard ... Read more >

Day 226: Back to Auckland

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [384]

Wednesday 18th June We had a long drive ahead of us, at least Mum & Dad had to travel from the Northlands to Auckland, drop me off there, and then continue onwards to Rotorua, a few hours extra drive south again. It was going to be a very long ... Read more >

Gallery: Our Wedding Day

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 | By cirila | Photo Gallery

Our Wedding Day

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 | By cirila | Views [377]

John and I were married in the Rotorua Redgestry Office on the 18th of June 2008.

Home

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 | By theladykelly | Views [346]

Packing is hard. Trying to get everything packed and done by tomorrow afternoon so I can make a trip to Auckland to see some friends and then enjoy the last full day in Raglan for Dads "50th" (the real one I will miss as I will be somewhere ... Read more >

Day 225: The Bay of Islands

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [418]

Tuesday 17th June The first thing I did when I got up was to pull back the curtains in my room and inspect the mornings weather. Although the skies were still grey, there was no rain and it all looked a little less forboding than the day before, ... Read more >

Gallery: a week down south

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 | By danielle_g | Photo Gallery

Home Sweet Home

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 | By vien_and_shaz | Views [792] | Comments [1]

Well, its over...we are back in New Zealand. As nice as it is to be home and see family and friends we are missing the bumming lifestyle of backpacking BIG time. I remember when we set off we were hoping that we would rid the travel bug but it feels ... Read more >

Day 224: Auckland to the Bay of Islands

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 | By markr_mcmahon | Views [428]

Monday 16th June We woke up to a miserable, rainy day in Auckland. The docklands were covered in a thick blanket of rain and the skies were a dark grey. The cooler and wetter weather that met us on our arrival into New Zealand the day before had ... Read more >

Gallery: NZ

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 | By cjmurdoch | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Rotorua

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 | By kiwi_kerry | Photo Gallery

Shotover Canyon Swing!!

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 | By sl0ggs | Views [4661] | Comments [2]

This morning I was booked to do the last crazy thing not yet done in this town... namely the Shotover Canyon Swing. Pretty simple... big canyon, lots of wires, two ropes and a victim... it is a 60 meter freefall into the 109 meter deep canyon and once ... Read more >

Tags: adrenaline, walking

Nevis Bungy!!

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 | By sl0ggs | Views [3615]

The Nevis bungy before today was something that I still held some fear for. The bridge bungy was a lot of fun, and there were no big dramas making the jump, but this one is 134 meters from a pod suspended by cables over a massive canyon and river. It ... Read more >

Tags: adrenaline, walking

Gallery: Rafting Rotorua

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 | By kiwi_kerry | Photo Gallery

Gallery: This is Who We are..

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 | By hotchips44 | Photo Gallery