Smiths Farm Holiday Park
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Westward Ho and back again.
After the Queen Charlotte track we camped a night nearby - a place called Smiths Farm Holiday Park. On arrival we were greeted with a warm muffin each- very welcome. The owner pointed out a walk into the forest we could do from the campsite where it might be possible to see glow worms if we went at dusk. So off we went arriving at a pretty …
From Windy Welly to the Sunny South
We were up bright and early for our ferry crossing to the South Island, kindly arranged by my parents friends at Hooker Pacific Haulage. Unfortunately, after a 5am start to get to the terminal for 7am and catch the 8am ferry, we were told that the 8am ferry didn't exist and that there was no knowledge of our booking, a little bit of trawling at the …
Picturesque Picton
... bed.
The next morning we’re up early as we have a 1.5 hour drive ahead of us back to Nelson to get the rest of our travel vaccinations. Again, we drive along the Queen Charlotte Drive which is just beautiful, lined by lakes and green hills with the slanting sunshine through the clouds creating some wonderful colours. We get our injections from the doctors, stock up on some supplies at the supermarket and start off on our 3 hour drive south to ...
Kühe und Seehunde
... cher ist als das Auto, aber auch das habe ich überlebt. Weder eine Kuh noch ich sind zu Schaden gekommen. Nach gut zwei Stunden und etwa 130 km Strecke war ich froh aus den Bergen raus zu sein und endlich den Pazifik zu sehen. Leider hat das Wetter nicht mitgespielt, aber das hatte ich ja erwartet. Die Wellen waren ziemlich hoch, was neben den Preisen ein Grund für mich war nicht über whale watching nachzudenken, da ich sowieso nur seekrank geworden wäre. Ich machte einen ...
The final leg
... that bad on the map, as we had time to spare we chose the coastal road. Looking back now we don’t regret it at all, but at the time we seriously wondered whether we had signed our own death warrants. This "road" turned into nothing more than a muddy, gravelly track just 5 minutes in, and for the next 90 minutes poor Alby was struggling to deal with near vertical climbs and drops on a slippery knife edge, to make matters ...
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