Gala Lodge Bed & Breakfast Invercargill
177 Gala St Invercargill, South Island, New Zealand
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Interesting Invercargill
... t mind as we had had a few days of perfect weather so we were due some cloud by now I suppose. From here its off to Bluff to stay the night in anticipation of our big journey to the southern south island... Stewart Island.
So as for Invercargill scores (4 x 4) + (4 x 3) = 28
Cheap houses, plenty of jobs and a nice city make for an appealing package, but it is a long way from everyone we now and rumour has it it gets pretty ...
Milford Track
Hiking the Milford Track has been on our bucket list since we first heard of it while living in New Zealand back in 1999! We couldn't have imagined back then hiking one of the most beautiful hikes in the world would come over a decade and 3 kids later! It really was a dream come true(for Mom, Dad, and Curtis!) The girls would say it wasn't a dream but calling it nightmare would be too extreme...maybe something inbetween? Here is the ...
Invercargill, the arse end of the world...not!
... just nothing spectacular. Maybe it was the long drive to reach Invercargill that caused people to speak poorly of it. Just the one night here before heading north, but not before we'd headed further south to Bluff for the obligatory North to South bragging rights. Bluff isn't actually the southernmost point on the south Island, we were actually further south when we were at Curio Bay, and the southern-most point was actually just round ...
Ferry back to the main land
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Drove up to our new camp site where they found there was record of us…excellent. But the owner made us a power site for the night and later even came knocking on our door just before the All Blacks game to invite us to join him in the house with wine and a ...
Haere ra New Zealand, it's been awesome
... deep powder for 2 days in a row baby!! Who woulda thunk...waist deep powder, in New Zealand, in August. Boom!
August 17th was the second day I went up the Remarkables to ski the fresh powder with my good friend Matty P and his mate Josh. Being it was the second day of riding after the snowfall, most of the runs and fresh lines had already been tracked, so we decided to hike up this mountain face in order to get to some ...


