New Zealand
Queenstown – the Adventure Capital of New Zealand
After some intense diagnosis, I can report that my camera problem from yesterday is due to a faulty memory card. I’ll have to wait and see if I can retrieve any images from it when I get back home. Everything seems to more be back to normal now that I have replaced it. We left […]
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Milford Sound
I didn’t do my usual daily post last night as I was extremely disappointed to get back from a day trip to Milford Sound and find that there was not one image from the day on my camera’s memory card. I had taken a couple of hundred photos during the day and this is one […]
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We Have Reached Te Anau
The picturesque township of Te Anau is the main visitor base for the glacier-carved wilderness that is Fiordland National Park. It provides a wide range of accommodation including lodges, hotels and campgrounds – all of which I have experienced in previous trips to this area when I have visited before and hiked the Milford and […]
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We Are Almost as Far South As We Can Go
Invercargill is almost as far south in New Zealand as you can go. Only the port of Bluff a few kilometres down the road is further south. We left Dunedin this morning after a short stop at the supermarket to buy some more breakfast supplies and headed south down the motorway. We made a mistake […]
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It Was a Perfect Day for Travelling to Dunedin
Today was a sunny day with a temperature of 22C and perfect for a road tour. After leaving Twizel, we drove through kilometres of irrigated farm land. Much of the irrigation equipment consisted of giant sprays, some of which were over 100 metres long. It’s no wonder that NZ is one of the most efficient […]
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Better Weather at Mt Cook
Yesterday, we left Akoroa and travelled back up the winding road and over the rim of the volcano onto the flat plains of Canterbury. We travelled through farmland until we joined the main highway to the south in constant light rain and drizzle. Just after joining the highway, we crossed the longest bridge on the […]
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Akaroa and the Banks Peninsula
There area around Akaroa is very historic and very scenic. We had time today to explore some more of the local area around the ancient volcano and the harbour We began our day by driving a short distance to the Akaroa Lighthouse. Although completed in 1879, it has only been at its current location for […]
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We are Beginning Another Trip Around New Zealand
It was the ungodly hour of 1.00 am this morning when we finally reached our hotel in Christchurch. We had a pleasant flight that left Melbourne at 7.00 pm and arrived into Christchurch at 0015. We had completed our passenger arrival declaration on-line using NZ’s newish NZTD app and we cleared immigration and customs quickly. […]
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It’s A Good Day In Queenstown
This is my last full day in Queenstown and it is a lovely day. I am almost recovered from my experience with Covid – just a little bit of a stuffy nose, but I feel like I am pretty much back to normal. There is little wind and the sky is blue. I caught the […]
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New Zealand WW1 Centenary Trails
I’m feeling a little pleased with myself after a WW1 Centenary Project Team working for the New Zealand Government saw one of my images and asked for my permission to use it in their project materials. It is displayed on their website and on printed banners (to be placed in libraries and schools around the […]
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With our Grandchildren in New Zealand
We’ve having a very good time in Wellington, New Zealand with Cathy and our two grandchildren We arrived here last Thursday and have had an active time with mild, but very windy weather. This city has really been living up to its name of being ‘Windy Wellington’. Yesterday we saw a woman literally holding on […]
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A Long Weekend In New Zealand
We enjoyed a very pleasant few days last weekend in the Little town of Martinborough in the Wairarapa Region and in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. We stayed in the little town of Martinborough (about 90 minutes drive from Wellington) for two nights at this very nice boutique hotel. Martinborough is the centre of […]
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