Riverton Rock Guesthouse

... wood veranda-ed pubs; alpha where i stubbed my big toe on a concrete bollard causing the world to go all black and white on me, meaning my almost fainting in the nowhere township; through such places as sapphire and emerald where gem mining goes on, and onwards through bluff and onto dingo, where vast amounts of coal mining appears to take place, and two such drive-through towns, which sean thought looked like they should be in the middle of america somewhere due to their wide ...

... wel zware tas waren we niet. 17-03: Wederom vroeg op, want de hut manager zou pap maken voor ontbijt. Dat scheelde voor ons weer gezeul met nog meer brood (naast het brood voor de lunch). Havermout pap was het, met bruine suiker en dat was verdomd goed te eten! Op weg naar de volgende hut (ook weer zo'n 17 km) kwamen we over oude tram viaducten. Port Craig was in 1916 een hout verwerkings dorpje. Er stond een zaag-molen en per ...

... Huge purple, yellow, and red flowers were in bloom across the slopes. The first day was pretty foggy and windy, but the next day was sunny and clear. We spent a half day exploring the island a little more, then sailed for Auckland Island. My favorite day was at Enderby Island, where we hiked around the perimeter of the island and observed a colony of Hooker's sea lions. They are an endangered species and this is an essential breeding ground for them. We ...

... would prepare enough food for us and I would just pay a 'lump sum'. We negotiated a price and they prepared us a variety of foods that turned out to be one of the best meals we have had that filled us and left us with a 'warm feeling' for Dunedin Airport. As we sat on the bus I wondered what we were doing travelling all this way to visit some people we met 13 years ago but really have not kept in ...

A 6:45am pickup from Queenstown - I was surprised everyone was ready. The new bus, with pointless air suspension, pulled up, and we all got on. Kerry had been missing from the night before, mainly because he'd rather enjoyed the previous night to the point of not being served. It meant he was probably the only "bright and early" thing on that bus, but we had places to go, people to see... The first stop was Te Anau where we booked both the Stewart Island ...

The Catlins were very lovely and provided perfect road trip scenery; rugged coastline, isolated bays and expanses of empty hilly landscape.On our little jaunt through we stopped at Nugget Point, Purakaunui Falls, Curio Bay and Porpoise Bay, finishing our time at Waipapa Point.

... of large rock steps that dropped some fifty feet at this point. We slowly walked back, admiring the trees and listening to the bird song. The road turned into a gravel track as we continued through the farmlands and as well as the (ever present) sheep, there were large herds of cattle. New Zealand has four and a half million people and four and a half million, billion........ trillion sheep! This was not surprising in the now lush, green pastures and as we passed one farm we ...

We ended up just having one night in Riverton, a sleeply little town, with fantastic views over the bay, on the far south of the south Island. The sunset was breathtaking, but with time flying by and so much that we still wanted to see, we decided to have an early night and head up the west coast to Milford sound the following morning.

... is the Lorneville Holiday Park, 352 Lorne Dacre Road. Check out the website: www.ronlaughlin.net/lorneville.html This is the chance to take a boat or flight to Stewart Island. Have a look at the following websites: www.tourism.net.nz/region/southland/sou thland---stewar t-island http://www.stewartisland.co.nz/ http://www.stewartislandflights.com/ http://www.riverton.co.nz http://www.nzbirds.com/StewartIsland.ht ml http://www.tourism.net.nz/region/southl and/transport ...

... supposed to be somewhat abundant, but it seems as though their population is pretty low. the coolest parakeets were from the antipodes islands, about 1000km south of NZ, where this one type of parakeet manage to land and evolve into a very unique species of bird, living on islands with no trees and heavy antarctic storms. the takahe was thought to be extinct for almost 150 years before it was re-discovered in 1948 by a tramping kiwi ...