Queenstown is sometimes compared to Lake Tahoe because of the lake, and the mix of winter (skiing) and summer (boating) activities. But the comparison doesn’t do justice to Queenstown. The lake is more magnificent, the mountains truly dramatic (they’re called “The Remarkables” for a reason) and Queenstown is the (self-)declared capital of adventure sports. This [...]
After the underwater adventure, we headed on down the coast to Hokitika. We stopped at Punekiki to see the blowholes and pancake rocks but sadly the sun had gone down so all we saw was a few possums in the moonlight. We could hear the amazing booming of the blowholes but couldn’t see the spray [...]
We left Nelson pretty early this morning to drive South to Charleston (which is just south of Westport). Charleston is a small town (150 people), but many years ago (New Zealand’s Gold Rush) the town population was up to 130,000 people and there was talk of making it New Zealand’s Capital. We were doing the [...]
New Zealand Part three – Adventuring in Abel Tasman I have decided that I am a First Class Adventurer – I love to explore, adventure, hike (insert activity here) but at the end of the day I like a hot shower and good food. Somehow I convinced Mark and Greg that for this trip we [...]
We left Martinborough and headed back to Greytown to buy more chocolate for Greg and then off to Wellington. (Before we left we grabbed a quick shot of the whole group – notice the similarities between Michael and Roland). Wellington is a lot like San Francisco, with high hills overlooking the bay and quaint little [...]
Well we are on our adventure!! We took off Saturday afternoon and headed to SFO before getting on our Air New Zealand Flight to Auckland. Greg had been in charge of purchasing us some snacks and we ended up with an entire carry on bag filled with treats (yes we know there are snacks in [...]