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Riverton
Travel Blogs from Riverton, New Zealand
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Lake Hauroko
This is a top pick! On Sunday I headed off to Lake Hauroko near Tuatapere with Blair. Originally I planned on checking out the Clifden Caves, but I don't really have a good enough flashlight (torch). Blair and I ended up taking a walk for roughly three hours up the side ...
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This is a top pick! Today's earlier entry was from rainy, dreary Invercargill. This entry is after a great trip back to Te Anau. I mainly went through Riverton and Tuatapere, but the usually short two and a half hour drive took me about six hours. I saw so many signs that ...
The Catlins
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Southern Scenic Route
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 198 Temperature : 23 degrees Weather : Sunny We took the Southern Scenic Route down to the South Coast which took about 7 hours with all our stops! It was a long day. In fact I don't quite know why it took us so long 'cos the guide ...
Water-logged
This is a top pick! ... 'away' from the shore) I finally arrived in Riverton, which is believed to be one of the oldest European settlements in New Zealand. I parked up and stayed for a while on the beach soaking up the powerful presence of the storm which I'd noticed ...
On the road to nowhere
This is a top pick! ... had some lunch at the Blue Duck Café before heading back to the lodge to await the Stray bus that was picking us up. The new driver is called Apples - interesting! We got picked up at 3pm and headed off on the scenic route from Milford Sound to Te ...
Beaches, Sheep and lots of Dags
This is a top pick! We took a detour from Q-town to Manapouri via the Southland Scenic Route....and it was well worth it...lots of sheep and their dangling dags (a Kiwi word for the knotted feces remnants surrounding a sheep's ...
Sausage country
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Milford sound and Riverton
I spent my birthday in a coastal town in Riverton, unfortunatley the weather was shitty, with rain and a really strong wind. Me bas and ramu, stayed in some deserted old campsite with nothing to do other than sit in the van! Thankfully we had some ...
Tuatapere and the Hump Ridge Track
... just as I was thinking I couldn't go on, I'd catch a glimpse of a view to the coast line below and from nowhere a new burst of energy would take over. Eventually we reached a view point and it was all worth it. To know that we'd ...
Underground Cave Adventure and Hut Experience
After our Milford Sound trip we met back up with the Osorios and had lunch in Te Anau. A nasty storm was a brewin' in the area so our plan to hike the Kepler track was going to have to be saved for another time. So we pulled out our trusty NZ ...
More farms, walking lots and sounding doubtful
I found myself back on a farm hostel here in Manapouri and it is another good find. Separate huts with their own cooking facilities they are cosy and warm, if only when the wood fires are burning :) I am sharing the room with a couple from the UK, nice ...
Le sud du sud!
La cote Sud! Finito la cote west! Finito les mosquitos! On se rapproche maintenant de l'Artic ou l'Antartic sait pu! Le long de la cote sud, est reputer pour sa faune marine. J'ai donc fait connaissance avec plusieurs sorte de penguins, lions de mer, ...
Last Sight of Providence
... between Bluff and Rakiura/Stewart Island. The weather was dismal but improving, and Wakaputa Point and Solander Island were clear an hour or so later. Our last sight of New Zealand was the hills around Preservation Inlet and Cape Providence. ...
Farm boy
Being a farming expert, I decided to spend sometime in a Kiwi farm in South Otago to explain the locals how the farming business should be organised, managed and generally thought of. The pictures that I will load as soon as I get a fast connection ...
Sheep shearing begins at 60!!
... courtesy of Helen and Terry. The evening was organized by my manager Peter Bramley and his wife Margi (in collusion with Lyn) and I think it sums up the philosophy of New Zealanders and was one of, if not THE best birthday treat of my ...
Hump Ridge Track
... have a go at it. We did see three or four off shore, but after wading in to our knees (remember, there is nothing between New Zealand and Antarctica), we determined it was much too cold to go in much further. We tried to swim with dolphins and all we ...
Got the Hump
... to the huts and carried our packs ourselves. The walk itself was marvellous - probably one of the best we have done in New Zealand. The fine weather obviously helped, but the views from the ridge were fantastic. The trek was hard going at times, but a ...
Alpined out - south coast bound.
Now heading south in anticipation of heavy mountain rains. Drove south to Riverton and then west to Colac Bay Backpackers. We'd had 6 nights in the van and deserved a decent bed. (To be sorely disappointed ! J for joke) Arrived a Colac Bay - few ...
Change of arrangements
Rich's car unfortunately died. There's a problem with the ignition and due to a lack of parts and mechanics familiar with ancient VWs we had to leave it behind as we headed south. That leaves us in the, ahem, ever reliable Subaru as we head ...
Buttoms up and The sound of Milford
... his response was : It is the asshole of the world" So we went on and spent the night with the locals at The globe hotel in Riverton and from there we went on to te anau. The town is situated right next to Te anau lake and the mountains - amazing place. ...
Riverton - Comfiest Bed In Our Whole Year
... at the top of the hill. There was no way we were climbing up it either! We then headed back through Invercargill to Riverton and our stopover - Globe Backpackers & Bar. We had a nice pizza there (though Gillian had some of the chili half and wasn't ...
Walks, animals and brochures
... , and finding out what there is to see besides the main tourist attractions was usually a trying task. The abundance of information in New Zealand overwhelmed us. Our first visit to an i-site ended with a heavy bag of all the AA free booklets. We ...
Hump Ridge Track-Southern NZ
Hey Everyone! This weekend was my first trip into the bush as they say down here. Me and three other guys went tramping in Fiordlands National Park down along the very southern coast of the South Island. We left thursday after class and camped at the ...
It's never too cold for a BBQ
After spending a few days around Milford taking it easy and going for short walks it was back into the van for a long slog to the Southern coast. We took the scenic coastal roads so the views were stunning and the traffic non existant. We found a nice ...
The Hump Ridge Track
... !!! Well there was nothing we could do now so we set off early on the first day on our 19km "tramp" (as they say in New Zealand). We started in bush for about 30 minutes and then had the most beautiful 1.5 hours walk beside the sea. There ...
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