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Travel Blogs from Cook Strait, New Zealand
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Crossing the Cook Strait
This is a top pick! A selection of photographs taken during the ferry ...
Ferry to the South Island / Faehre auf Sued Insel
5th August - Trip to the South Island There are 2 options to get you to the South Island of New Zealand, by a nice 45 minute flight over or a 3 hour ferry journey over some of the roughest part of sea in the world, which option did we choose, the ferry ...
New Zealand in Sight
... be much later. So yet another call to the hotel awaits. Weather improved in the afternoon, and while out gazing at New Zealand I spotted some dolphins heading for our bows. So I headed there myself and got a few pictures of the next group ...
Wellington to Picton
... they resumed most folks had expelled the contents of their stomachs during the trip as a result of 5m high waves in the Cook Strait. The actual entry into Picton is through the Marlborough Sounds, a quite wonderful sight. As Our Hero is sleeping, and ...
South Island to North Island Ferry
We drove the car and ourself's to the Interislander which is the New Zealand ferry service that crosses the Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The 92 km (57 mile), three hour journey between Picton ...
Back across the strait
Writing this from my iPod touch on the Interislander Ferry. Got up at 4:45 this morning to take the early ferry back to the north island. Yesterday my dad and I spent the early part of the day in the Golden Bay area. Our planned morning Icelandic ...
North to South
... Picton you go through the Queen Charlotte Sound which gives amazing views of the collection of Islands. After arriving at Picton we headed south West to Nelson to start our adventure for the next 10 days in the South of New ...
Journey South
We were up early and took the early Bluebridge ferry from Wellington to Picton across the Cook Strait and into Queen Charlotte Sound. The crossing was a lot calmer than expected, we had watched a Bluebridge ferry the day before from Owhiro Bay and ...
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