Month: January 2011
Return to Christchurch
The weather improved markedly as we travelled further up the west coast from Greymouth on Monday morning. I have now been to Greymouth five, or six times, and I have never been there while the sun has been shining – Grey by name, and also by nature! We stopped for a look at the pancake […]
Read More
West Coast Wilderness
The west coast of New Zealand is very remote. The main road that we used across the Haast Pass was only .completed in 1950.there are very few towns and there are long distances between settlements. We began by driving along the same route taken by the Wanaka Challenge bike race. We drive carefully to avoid […]
Read More
Staying by the Lakes
We spent a few days in thievery active town of Queenstown on Lake Wakitapu. This is the adventure capital of New Zealand with every possible activity ever created. It’s a good place for sight seeing, shopping and eating.The old steamship plods it’s way down the lake every day to take tourists to a sheep station […]
Read MoreMount Cook
We were at Mount Cook around this time last year and it was rainy with grey skies and drizzle. There wasn’t much to see at all. Today it was sunny and a perfect day to head up past Lake Pukaki to the village of Mount Cook. We did a bit of walking to a point […]
Read More
Back to New Zealand
Well, it seems that traveling to New Zealand is become an annual thing for us. We never tire of visiting here and it suits Jill as it is a few degrees cooler than home in summer. We arrived in Christchurch on Saturday, January 8th, and stayed overnight near the centre of town. It is easy […]
Read More