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The Final Countdown
Hi all, several reasons for todays update. Firstly, we are coming to the end of our Kiwi adventure, also to fill in the gaps (or more importantly, the bits that Polly missed out!) We also feel the need to celebrate that last night was our final sleep in EZY camper! (see below!) Today we are going to stay with Polly's aunt here in the fine city of …
A quick dash over to the other coast
Hi, sorry we haven't posted for a few days we have been so busy to find the time.
From Bay of Islands we went over to Opononi which is the smallest seaside resort with hugh sand dunes on one side of the bay and a huge forest area in contrast on the other. We went to visit the largest trees in the forest (in terms of diameter) which are …
Big world, Bigger trees
... few files downloaded... also a guy camping next to us lent me his hard-drive so ripped a load of films off there, and some good old Ross Kemp survivor episodes... watched a good one about meeting the ‘Mongrel Mobs’ of NZ, going to keep an eye out for those chaps!
Our top tip if you’re thinking of backpacking or travelling is to bring a net book or small laptop. Ours is defiantly the most useful thing we have brought!
Oli ...
NZ North Island tour highlights
... t see anything more than about 7 feet in-front of us as we left Picton. But after a short while the sun shone & burnt through the fog just in time for us to see a pod of Dolphins swim up to the ship to play around in the bow waves :) so cool! A nice Birthday message of "Hello" for Mya.
They were jumping about & seemed to be having such fun. They followed us for quite a while until they got bored/tired.
The "fjord like" scenery of Queen Charlotte Sound was ...
Week two part 2
... and watched with interest as the currents flowed into and out of the harbour mouth..
we set off for the 20 km drive through waipoua forest where we stopped to see the 2000yr ols live kauri tree named Tane Mahuta by the locals because of its spiritual value..i loved being in the presence of such an old tree it felt very powerful...
the drive to matakohe was a little ordinary, flat grass land with grazing cattle we ...