Finally put up some photo's of NZ for anybody still looking! It goes all the way back to the beginning of our time in NZ at Akoroa. Enjoy! May write something up here sometime as well!

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better - it did! When we left Nelson we visited a wonderful natural refuge, Rabbit Island, and then enjoyed some culture in the Hoglund Glass Studio. Arrived at the Resurgence in time to book a water taxi so we could do a 4 hour (13 km) hike in the Abel Tasman National Park. Boy did we enjoy the pool and h...

The mission of the day: Skydiving in Motueka over the Abel Tasman park. I tried to do a formation of one week to become a real skydiver but there was no date available before the 21st and as I m leaving the 24th... I went for a tandem: my first jump will be with an instructor behind me. At first when I arrived in the center, I ve seen the packin...

To pick up where I left off, I spent a few days in Wellington. On Sunday, I went to the NZ Academy of Fine Arts where an event called Arts Alive was being held. Basically, it was a chance for artists to showcase their works and allow the public to learn their crafts by trying them. When I walked in, I met a guy who works with clay to make abstra...

Where has he been? What has he been doing? How come he hasn't written a blog since 1863...? Well, if I wanted to boast about how many plates I can carry or how many beds I had made I would have given you a weekly update, but given most of my time has been spent working over the last two months I felt no real need to write the blogs. Now that the...

Well well, i know its been sometime since the last time i wrote then and now i'm going to pay for it! So we were able to get our car fixed in Katikati $400 later. But since then all has been well with the car knock on wood. We left with good spirits as we were just wanting to get out of the small town, so we headed to Taupo. A beautiful lakeside...

Woke up to the sound of bird song and millions of buzzing insects. After sorting out our bites we had brekkie and dropped our backpack off for the water taxi. Then headed further north for another days walking feeling achy and a bit grumpy. It didn't last long given we were in such a beautiful and peaceful place. After seeing more stunning scena...

Then, I came out again. All within slightly less than 24 hours. Impressive eh? So here is the part that I complain excessively and you nod sympathetically. Or shake your head at the bloody city kid who's totally clueless. Either way I don't see it so I don't really care. Actually it wasn't really a farm. This was something that actually bugged m...

And tadaa - out of nowhere came an idea to go skydiving! We had planned on doing the ultimate NZ activity at some point during the year, most likely in Queenstown where you can jump from 16000 feet and freefall for a minute. That is the highest tandem you can do but also the most expensive. When Jo picked up a flyer about skydiving over the Abe...

North of the South Island is home to the Abel Tasman national park, a beautiful reserve where you can walk / cycle / kayak or take a sea taxi between spots on the otherwise inaccesible coast. It's incredibly beautiful, and we took a tour where we were dropped into the park by aqua taxi, hiked down the coast for a couple of hours, and then kayake...