Riverton Beach Motel Invercargill

... and inaccessible, people with more time walk tracks that cut around the top of the Island, allow a week if you are going to do this, there are free huts every 3 or 4 hours along the tracks, if we had known earlier we would have walked into the first hut at Port William and back again. As it was we rented some motor scooters and rode over every road on the Island. We had lunch at the South Seas Hotel, great food and good prices. Everywhere we went we seen wild life ...

... for him. no money, just beer! you wouldn't get it back in england! so we do this, the flapping continues, but we're back on the road and back on our way towards the coast. until detour no. three happens in the form of a road sign highlighting the fact that the main highway that we want to take is back up and running but that road users must take care, meaning that there'd probably been a flood and the road wasn't perfect yet and that the weather still wasn't great, and so after a ...

Beautiful clear blue skies this morning as we left Arrowtown and followed Lake Wakatipu down to Kingston - gorgeous views of snow topped mountains with the amazing blue of the lake at their feet. Saw the Kingston Flyer Steam Train at Fairlight, we stopped for about 15 minutes to look at it and watch it chug back towards Kingston. Drove past many classic but pretty Otago scenes - snow tipped mountain ranges with sheep grazing in ...

... Vanaf de carpark op een erf van een boer, was het nog ongeveer 6km lopen naar het officiele startpunt van de Humpridge Track. Vanaf daar stond er nog 5 uur op de borden (zie foto) om tot Port Craig Village te komen waar de hut staat. De low tide route mochten we niet nemen, daar waren te veel mensen vanaf gered de laatste tijd. Na zo'n 4 uur kwamen we bij de hut aan, redelijk verrot want echt gewend aan het lopen met een ...

It was 6.50am. It was cold and raining and I was wondering why on earth I was stood outside with a heavy rucksack on my back waiting for a bus, instead of being tucked up in bed. The people getting on the bus with me seemed to be thinking the same thing, as we all waited in relative silence. In silence we got on the bus. Luckily, we had a good guide. He let us be! I'll be honest, I hadn't really been looking this leg of the ...

... hair nets and Brian even got to wear an extra one that looked like a jock strap on his face to cover his beard. So, we got heaps of chocolate although they didn't give us any Cadbury Eggs - which was hard to believe considering Easter is around the corner. We also went to the steepest street in the world, Baldwin Street. Really, they even give you a certificate saying you've been there. And it was...really steep. A lot of homes were for ...

... an all terrain vehicle. Been there, done that. Also, call me stubborn, but I refuse to pay money to stand in a snow storm when it is 27 degrees and sunny outside. Equally troubling was that Sarah wanted to know if the Nazis ever got snowed on...we're starting to get worried!; · The Plan B to visiting the Antarctic Center was going to a place called Science Alive...about 1/3 the cost and 5 times more fun. Lots of things to push, pull and prod ...

... doing and how seriously they take their roles and responsibility as parents (good on ya mates!). Bill and Cec offered to drive us to the Dunedin airport (3 hours) - yes, I too am thinking what wonderful friends they are. The kids were pretty quiet after saying goodbye at the airport, but it was worse when we arrived in Auckland and were waiting for our luggage. Monique stated boldly that our life was going to be so boring without ...

... Vally Trail - an 18km round trip crossing a couple of swingbridges and each valley turn revealing an even more spectacular view of the mountain itself until the trail ends and you can almost touch the glacier draping from it. I mentioned the climber that died on Mount Cook not long after I arrived in NZ. Weather conditions here had been so bad that repeated rescue attempts proved futile and ultimately too late. Today proved how sudden and unpredictably conditions can change here. The 1hr ...

... Starbuck's and, yes, hospital in the world) the surroundings are absolutely astounding. <br><br>To the east are the Catlins, a secluded coastal area with primeval rain forests, stunning waterfalls, a petrified forest and beaches where you can walk amongst seals and sea lions and watch penguins coming home after finishing work out at sea. These little critters are decidedly cute, waddling over the beach to their nests in the dense bushes that line the hills. <br><br>In the South there's ...