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Invercargill Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Invercargill, New Zealand
Three-eyed beasts
This is a top pick! ... the beach, occasionally peering at us through watery eyes. We then braved the wind at Slope Point, the most southerly point in New Zealand, and almost equidistant between the Equator and the South Pole. It is the home of New Zealand's most southerly ...
Summer, where are you?
This is a top pick! Settle down. I know you're very excited about the sheep shearing world record being broken yesterday. I'm sure it's all over the newspapers. I'll get to that in a bit. Let's see, I think I last updated in Seacliff. The last day there was ...
Vegas
This is a top pick! ... Tuatepere. I was going to head to Bluff, but if I make it to Stewart Island I will be going through there anyway. Invercargill is a boring and uneventful city. At least that's true from a tourist perspective. They really don't have much to offer and ...
Braving the winds...
This is a top pick! ... we were at the beautiful, but absolutely freezing Porpoise Bay - it's amazing how quickly the weather can change in New Zealand! I took a couple of pictures but then scurried inside the visitor's centre for information on Stewart Island. Quite frankly, I ...
Never Been this far from Home
This is a top pick! ... to sea and thinking wow, the south pole is the next stop! We checked into Beach Road Holiday Park (just outside Invercargill town) and would recommend this campsite to anyone as the facilities and amenities were great and the owner was very friendly ...
Southern City
This is a top pick! ... ,000 it has everything you need in a city but still suffers from a poor reputation amongst other kiwis as being somewhat inadequate. Invercargill is perhaps the most southerly city I will ever visit in the world - I'm closer to the South Pole than the ...
Invercargill
This is a top pick! ... 't going to go to Stewart Island. We booked into our hostel and then the day was ours. There really isn't that much to do in Invercargill as it is a working town. I went and had a look round; it was just like any town in England really. I headed back ...
Caitlin Coast
This is a top pick! ... about the sub-antartic islands were the weather is even worse and people have only survived shipwrecks by eating megaherbs and doing horrible things to seals. New Zealand lost in the World Cup to Australia, the knives are out. ...
Life with 'The Cunninghams'
This is a top pick! ... seven or eight days out there this started to develop in to a mild obsession. In the nine months that I've been in New Zealand I don't think I've eaten mashed potatoes once. Until now. Since returning to the Lorneville Holiday Park, it's all I've ...
Kitchen People
This is a top pick! ... He explained with a glimmer of adventure how he had sold his farm, replacing it just as quickly with everything he needed for his new lifestyle of choice; a luxurious caravan, a four-wheel-drive and a kayak. I thought it was an amazing decision for a man ...
The Power of Goodbye
This is a top pick! After further thanks and a friendly moment of farewell with Sue and Vance I started up the van and made my way up to the office for my final goodbye - the one I wasn't looking forward to. Not at all. When I got out of the van Chris was in the ...
From the bottom of the world
This is a top pick! Half way through my New Zealand road trip and I'm at the bottom of the country. I guess that it's high time I turned around and started going north again! Invercargill is certainly the southern most city I've ever visited, and my stay on Stewart ...
Down South for the Night
This is a top pick! As promised we did very little today so we could rest our limbs. We left for Invercargill at 7am, arriving at 9am. We didn't bother going to Stewart Island for a couple of reasons. Firstly it was NZ$110 each to use the ferry (about £40 each). ...
Over to Inver
This is a top pick! ... who liked the local brew and a good laugh along the way. She was really friendly too, spoke better English and absolutely loved New Zealand, so there was plenty to talk and laugh about. It made for quite a pleasant evening really and after a brief read ...
Henry
This is a top pick! ... . To be honest, once again I wasn't blown away by old 'Inver'. Considering it's a city and by the standards of the other New Zealand cities I've encountered, there' really isn't a fat lot to write home about. Sorry Inver! I left after a while before ...
Southern most city in the world
This is a top pick! ... The impression we had of Invercargill before we visited was of a dirty, windy city with not much going for it at the bottom of New Zealand. When we arrived we were pleasantly suprised to find a city, which on the day we were there was very mild, sunny ...
How Cold?
This is a top pick! ... scrambled eggs on thick toast for breakfast then promptly packed, loaded up the bus and it was off South this time to Invercargill - New Zealands most Southern city. And bloody freezing it was too. There was an option of flying to Stewart Island (the ...
Hokey Pokey, Te Anau and Manoupri
This is a top pick! ... of us were in Judith's car, and on our way to Te Anau. But first a few facts about Invercargill. The population is about 50,000; it;s New Zealand's southernmost city with a 'can do' attitude and a friendly approach (so the tourist blurb says, ...
More rugby.....!
This is a top pick! I had an interesting trip down from Te Anau to Invercargill, as the office had over-booked the bus I was supposed to be travelling on, and there wasn't a seat for me - so I ended up sitting on a rugby ball and 2 pillows between the driver and passenger ...
Invercargill
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from New Zealand in our entry from Kaikoura, New Zealand entitled 'The Last of the Cliff Climbing Penguins!'. Cheers, K & ...
On our way to invercargill we stopped at ...
This is a top pick! ... redeeming factor for us (although we obviously love the rural life) was that it was near Bluff which is at the very bottom of New Zealand (apart from the islands). We tried to head there 10th November but the wind nearly took us off the road so we gave ...
Sausages and Tuatapere
This is a top pick! We could have done our return journey to Invercargill via Lake Hauroko, the deepest lake in New Zealand. But because no trip to New Zealand would be complete without a sojurn to Tuatapere, the sausage capital of NZ (and I've the photo to prove it), we ...
Rain Forecast
This is a top pick! Invercargill is a bigger city than we expected, sprawling with chain stores and car dealerships. We were unduly excited to see our first Pak'nSave on the South Island! Bear in mind that we'd worked our way from top to bottom along the west coast already. ...
Queenstown to Invercargill
... : at least we found a glassons. Getting out of Queenstown somehow took us to lunch time before we even had filled up with gas. Invercargill is a town full of not a lot. As the Lonely Planet guide says it really is just a place to fill up before heading ...
Down the Catlins
... family run camping ground. This place was laid back to stay the least with payment made into an honesty box. We both set up our new tents for the first time and set about cooking up some dinner. After dinner we decided to get onto the box of wine we had ...
"The Dead Marshes"
We did an inland drive to the south coast, stopping a couple of times along the way, from Te Anua to Intercargill. Our first stop was near the town of Manapouri, we caught the famous hike called the Kepler Track to some marshlands. These were ...
Invercargill
... strongly advise that theres nothing to do there....and they're right! Even at the i-site, the number 1 activity in Invercargill is the cinema!! So we went and saw 'jumper'. Number two was laserquest (yup running ...
I Love Tallulha
... hilly. I was tired!!! Just recovered intime to see the opening ceromony at the pub; what was all that about? Invercargill. I am staying at Simon and Maddie's house here now; some of you at Ellesmere will know Simon very well from Skill ...