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LOTR Hunt Lower Hutt
... the locals when they were filming here. We resist the urge to throw ourselves into the water and continue on our location hunt. Next we hunt for Isengard which we finally find in a little park not far away from the riverbed. Identifying the exact areas took a while as the GPS in the location book was off to the coordinates we have, but eventually we find it and feel very happy with ourselves!
We get back in the car and drive the 1 hour South and into ...
Getting Ready for the Sunrise Flight
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And so thats it ... Will shut up shop and re-emerge in our first stop Sydney Australia....
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Culture, caving and crossing a volcano
... 8220;gravity is your friend, you’ll pop out the other side soon enough”! Having had all of five minutes training I held on to my rope for dear life, gritted my teeth and just tried not to hyperventilate, eventually seeing Andy’s dark boiler-suited form reassuringly below me in the half-light. Once down onto the first ledge we had to undo our ropes, reattach ourselves to the next one and abseil another 30 metres down into the next shaft…towards ...
A month on the road with Farmer and Scouse!
... campsite which had really nice views of Laka Wanaka.
We headed to the kitchen to cook our dinner of sausages, mash,veg and gravy - definitely needing a torch along the way there as it was pitch black! Jack forgot something so headed back to the campervan and Joe decided to play a bit of a prank on him. Joe hid outside behind one of the many trees and heard Jack's footsteps as he was making his way back to the kitchen. Jack had turned the torch off, almost half ...
New Zealand: Mount Cook to Auckland
So from Queenstown it was a relaxing few days in Mount Cook national park and Lake Tekapo. Day one went according to plan, with me doing little more than marvel at the view from the sofa. In Mount Cook it snowed, which was a strange sensation in May for a northern hemisphere dweller. Whilst it was pretty, I felt I appreciated it adequately from the hostel. To make up for doing little (or rather, nothing) here, in Tekapo me and my friends decided to climb to the observatory at ...