Hillcrest South Island

RD 1, Orepuki, Riverton South Island, New Zealand

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Underground Cave Adventure and Hut Experience

A travel blog entry by thekellers

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... fastened to our head and our eyes wondering what the heck we would see. Within the first minute we had lost all daylight and we were surrounded by darkness and silence. It was a little eery at first but that feeling quickly disappeared when we started seeing all the amazing cave formations. There were stalactites, stalagmites, cave bacon, flowstone, a deep cave pool and signatures dating back to the 1890's! We squeezed, walked and climbed through spaces in ...

South Island adventure

A travel blog entry by chrisandgem

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... created by the sea crashing in and slowly over time forming holes when the waves smash against the rock and blow up eroding the sides and roof of the cave until there is no more and know when the waves crash in the water sprays up thus creating a 'Blow Hole', it looked awesome and the eroded rock had created brilliant patterns, we were lucky too as the sea was rather wild it created larger spray when the waves crashed in. After this, we continued down heading towards ...

Bottom of New Zealand

A travel blog entry by bquaglino

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... I don’t think it was really that bad. There wasn’t much to do, but the city was quaint. Invercargill is located at the very bottom of the South Island. I think its location is more of what Mick was referring to. Invercargill is also the largest city on the southern end of New Zealand. Its population is about 50,000. The city reminded me of Bakersfield or Fresno ... not to dog on the valley again. The people were very similar to valley folk and pretty much fit ...

South Island Adventures!

A travel blog entry by kathrynryan

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... there just happened to be Hector's dolphins and Yellow-eyed penguins! We weren't sure if we would get to see either, but as luck would have it again, it was moulting season so there were three male penguins on the shoreline waiting for their closeup. That evening we put to use the vacuum packed Moroccan lamb we bought from the farmers market in Hawkes Bay. We weren't sure if the dodgy camp stove was up to the task, but it managed to heat it up enough and we had a ...

Yellow-Eyed Penguins

A travel blog entry by llcooldays

4

... suburban town, where families go for a walk around the block after dinner, to enjoy sunset.

The penguin who came ashore decided to hop back into the water for one last swim, and we watched him float around on the surface like a duck. One other penguin came in from sea. It was difficult to tear ourselves away from the adorable creatures, but eventually we left them to their evening rituals and headed back to the ...

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