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... Whalewatching. Warum denn nicht mit den Delphinen schwimmen, Ihr seid doch noch Jung… Gesagt getan. Ohne Worte. 300 – 400 waren es laut Skipper. Rein in den Wetsuit, Tauchermaske auf und ab ins 16 Grad kalte Wasser. Ein kurzer Schock, die ersten Kontakte aufgenommen und von der Kälte nichts mehr gespürt. Auszuformulieren was da passiert ist, würde zu lange dauern und viel zu viele Wahsinnswörter verschwenden. Ein wunderschöner Abschluss unserer kleinen ...
Im Land der Ringe
Heute war das Wetter spitze. Die Sonne scheint, der Himmel ist blau und wir fahren erstmal nach Ashburton, um Lauras Hose umzutauschen. Dann fahren wir nach Mt. Somers und biegen auf eine Deadend Strasse in die Berge ab, die nach 20 Kilometern zu einer Gravelroad wird. Doch die Muehen werden belohnt und wir kommen in eine Szenerie aus ...
Sightseeing
Today we caught up with Garth, a good Kiwi friend of Arne. We told him we wanted to do some sight seeing, so he volunteered to drive us around. We have our own rental car here, but try telling him that. Kiwi hospitality can be pretty stubborn, and arguing just gets ignored. Or maybe that's just Garth. But truth is that we have yet to find a Kiwi in a bad mood. Some seem a bit overdosed on the happy pills, but most are ...
Beautiful
... I became a little too competitive and unfortunately the children on the tour were not fed as well as me. Dunedin is a pretty nice place and we did the usual sight seeing and walking around but it also had some pretty special pubs. My favorite was Mou Very, just 1.8m wide (apparently) and fitted just a few punters which spilled out on to the alleyway. Very cool and opposite a tasty Thai restaurant that we also ...
Some stunning scenery
We had a plan that we would wake up in time to see the sun rise this morning, as the sun set was so beautiful, but it didn't quite happen for us - as one of my friends put it "There was no sunrise; the world just gradually got less dark..." So we went back to bed and woke at a more friendly hour, and then went for a walk, to take our last advantage of such beautiful surroundings.
We figured out that the estimated time to ...
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