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Gore
Travel Blogs from Gore, New Zealand
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The Catlins
This is a top pick! Thursday night I realized that I had three days off starting with Saturday. After discussing the Catlins with Chris, I knew where I'd be this weekend. I left around 11:30 Sat. morning and drove through Invercargill. By night I would end up in ...
Milford Sound and Gore
This is a top pick! ... in the world.... I will have to put them onto the website when I get a chance. We headed straight from Milford Sound to Gore - the brown trout fishing capital of the world apparently. An early night was had here, nothing much to do around the place and ...
Hitching to the waterfalls...
This is a top pick! ... to be a 4 hour return trip, but it was definitely worth it as the beach was one of the best ones I'd seen in New Zealand, with huge waves crashing onto the sand. The immediate backdrop of dense forest provided an unusual contrast. Indeed, the beach was ...
The trip to Dunedin
This is a top pick! ... you can't really see them in this picture but the bay is lovely anyway!. On again and this time to the most southern point in New Zealand and some sheep! Next port of call was to pick a lady up from a hostel; it was really strange around here, as there ...
Lighthouse Sunrise & Coastal Sightseeing
This is a top pick! When we woke up to our alarm at 5am we were a little bit on the edge about getting up (especially since it looked a bit cloudy and that could ruin the sunrise) but we managed to pull ourselves out of bed anyway. We of course took advantage of the ...
SeaLion - Tick. Penguin - Tick
This is a top pick! ... the South Island where we hope to see rare yellow eyed penguins and sea lions. Driving back out from the house and heading towards Gore we saw the incredible views we’d missed in the dark yesterday - rolling green fields with a back drop of snowy ...
Wildlife Checklist Begins With Dolphins - Tick
This is a top pick! ... drive and spectacular scenery and making sure we kept safe on the twisting turning mountain roads, stopping to use the internet in Gore before arriving at Tapanui around 6. Amazingly in the dark, Mikey spotted the turn to Beatties road and a after quick ...
Lord of the Rings Land!
... and Andy to head on our way to the East Coast. We drove for about 3 hours and then stopped off at a little town called Gore, we parked up at a small nature reserve for $5 each which thankfully had a flushable toilet! We were the only ones on the campsite ...
Routeburn Track
... in the UK, few months before my departure, where Steve, Chris and I decided to go on a day hike in Devon and try out our new packs. Chris decided to come along with us to keep us company. Only Steve turned up with an empty backpack and Chris had to give ...
Down on the farm
I met Kara last night at the hostel. She's spending the next few days on a farm here in Gore, and as it's on my way I saved her the bus trip. The cattle farm is share-farmed by the son of the Dunedin hostel owners. He seems like a good guy with a ...
Life on the sheep farm
... nice fellow named Joshua from Illinois who was helping out on the farm when we were there. He is a Bible college student in northern New Zealand who is helping out on the farm for his summer break.We had quite a crew! Without going into too much ...
Just plane boring, wah wah wah....
... thing, Jeannie and I stumbled upon the most excellent place. In the middle of nowhere, which is saying something in New Zealand, there is one of the better known aircraft restoration specialists of old British planes, Croydon Air Services. ...
Trout, Penguins, Sheep
... nice things about Sean is that he is never afraid of looking silly. He was so excited about the trout statue in Gore he couldn't contain his trout impersonation. Later the same evening, we headed to a lighthouse hike and a yellow-eyed penguin ...
On the road to Gore via the Morekai Boulders
... been nice to stop in Dunedin, a place where quite a few of Stephen's ancestors came from, but it's still a fair hike from Gore so onward we pushed. The further south we went the more sheep we saw. In fact they were everywhere and ...
Gory Details
... around the corner from lakes, mountains, glaciers, fjords, oceanic trenchs and perculiar geological oddities, you don't need to bother making your towns look that nice. Who want's to stay and look at the town when you've got New Zealand on your doorstep? ...
Kinda Funny Looking
... cheese, whilst I went for mince pie and and a fairly conservative looking banana cake. Coffee was served in a mug which, in true Gore style and by design, didn't have a handle. Enjoyment of the coffee was rather marred by the third degree ...
Going Mobile
... Balclutha for an oil cap. Now I'm in Dunedin for 2 nights and am going to the Speight's Brewery tomorrow. Speight's is a typical New Zealand beer, good, not great. It's the local stuff all over the South Island so having been my beverage of choice for ...
Dolamore Park, an unexpected Alladin's cave
... slide. It was like being 10 again. The next day we walked the Dolamore Track, which conveniently runs right from the entrance to the campsite, and then headed off to New Zealand's southernmost point, sad to think our kiwi experience was coming to an end. ...
A Day For Me
... knee surgery? Why was he walking around? Let's just say I didn't sleep well the rest of the night. The next day I was in Gore. Gore is a very small town with not much there, but it is the self-claimed "Brown Trout Capital of the World." I ...
My Bad
... in NZ, I thought no probs they will point me in the right direction.. When I got there is was closed. Wondered the length of Gore looking for a place to stay, to be honest it only took half an hour. Had no luck so was contemplating finding a nice park ...
Galloping through Gore
... we got there and settled it was time dinner then bed. Next morning we got packed up and drove into town for a bit of a walk around. Gore cops a bit of flack but it really was a suprisingly nice, neat and tidy little town. After a good walk and feeling the ...
The World Brown Trout Fishing Capital
... Brown Trout! But the thing that made us decide to explore the place properly was a HUGE sign claiming that Gore was also the Country Music Capital of New Zealand!!! This place thinks it is special! We headed straight for The Gore Town & Country Club, ...
Through the Catlins
... in Te Anau to do the Kepler Track starting tomorrow. We are to drive out through the scenic Catlins. Start Kms 136Km. Went through Gore and stopped off for lunch - not much to see. Continued along the Southern Scenic Route and stopped off in Curio Bay ...
Camping by the sea
This was an absolutely lovely beach we stopped at on our way up to Kaikoura, in fact it was so nice we decided to camp here for the night so we could really make the most of it... The pictures were actually taken by me very early in the morning - ...
The House of God.. NZ general practice unabriged
... ride to Auckland.I am expecting a BILL in the post for wasting the air ambulance's time!! For the medics in the audience ..hypotension secondary to cold urticaria...... Next up ....The leaving of New Zealand .." dagging, Gorons, scarfies and ...
Rolling Around in a Wave with a Kayak
... knew we were going under, so I grabbed onto my glasses. But I did lose one flip flop (or jandal as they call them in New Zealand), and Carsten and I tried to get it. However, every time a wave came, it not only pounded us, but moved my jandal ...
Easter Camp
... night session and also had us share at one point. A main part of the weekend was connecting with the youth of New Zealand and encouraging and empowering them to radically devote their lives to God as well as mobilizing them for missions. I ...
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