Day: 23 February 2026
New Zealand
Cape Palliser – The Most Southerly Point on NZ’s North Island
Cape Palliser is about 50 kilometres from Martinborough. The road takes you across farmland and then hugs the coast until yoou reach the lighthouse. The area of farmland is on a broad plain. It was here that a number of graziers initially met in the 1800s and combined their flocks of sheep to form New […]
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New Zealand
South to Martinborough’s Wine Region
Our 270 km drive from Napier to Martinborough took us through orchard country, grazing land and then vineyards. It was an interesting drive – nothing spectacular – but we did come across some interestig places. The Pekapeka swamp and wetlands, south of Napier, is all that is left of what was once a much larger […]
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