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Day 54: West coast rain

A travel blog entry by john-vanda

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It started at about 3am, a battering, like machine gun fire on the tin roof. Just another rain storm, but by the time we got up for 8am breakfast it had settled into a steady drizzle. Greymouth was living up to its name. Alison presented us with lovely home-made bread for breakfast (that's the second day running we’ve had this …

From holidays to work

A travel blog entry by metschos

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... to frighten them. Just the moment we were ready to go, all the dolphins swam away…
Nice dolphins.. :D So we went with the boat after them, carefully. They were not that much interested in four swimmers and a boat I think. The next time I got in the water I swam with the dolphin a few meters but he was too fast and he swam away. The same again at the next stop :D
But all in all I had the chance to swim with a dolphin 2 minutes and was able to look him in the ...

One last night in Blenheim!

A travel blog entry by tommy21osu

I'll have to comeback and do a harvest summery but that seems like a pretty daunting task at the moment. So I'm all finished with work, we had our harvest part yesterday which was one of my best day in NZ! We all went on a fishing charter in the Marlborough Sound (amazing surroundings!) all we were catching were blue cods which are out of season (but still fun to finally be catching something!) but Nick caught a 5 foot eel ...

The beauties of the world right here NZ.

A travel blog entry by agilitina

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... had 15,000 and are now down to a dwindling 500,000. Some are nearly extinct. Not only whalers kill these beautiful playful hamrless creatures of the sea. The Navy setting off sonar pulses deafens the whales which is what causes the beaching of whales, also ships bump into them and fishing nets get them tangled. Very sad for such a beautiful creation on earth. Gentle giants of the deep blue sea.
The whale watch was early morning which meant i got to see a beautiful sunrise over ...

Ein krönender Abschluss

A travel blog entry by scubanewzealand

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... ter einsammeln.

12:15 Uhr saß ich im Auto. Die allerletzten 160km Autofahrt standen vor mir. Die Autofahrt von Kaikoura nach Picton war ein Augenschmaus. Links die gigantischen Gipfel, rechts der pazifische Ozean. Die Sonne lachte vom wolkenlosen, türkisblauen Himmel. Aus den Boxen dröhnte Musik.

Stolz und überglücklich blickte ich auf die Zeit mit meinem „weißen Ross“ (Mazda 323) zurück. Ich hatte all das gesehen, was ich wollte. Ein Auto ...

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This B&B, located on 30 Solway Drive, Blenheim, is near Bubbly Grape Wine Tours (Marlborough), Wine Tours By Bike, Cloudy Bay, and Quilter's Barn - Mud Hut Complex.
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