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Travel Blogs from Taupo
"The Dead Marshes"
We did an inland drive to the south coast, stopping a couple of times along the way, from Te Anua to Intercargill. Our first stop was near the town of Manapouri, we caught the famous hike called the Kepler Track to some marshlands. These were used in the filming of the Lord of the Rings scene at "The Dead Marshes". The hike there took about an hour …
Wellington and the North Island
New Zealand - part 3 (The North Island) So part 2 of our New Zealand blog was loaded up at Picton, where the ferry docks to connect the north and south islands. Quiet and consequently pleasant place, maybe because it is getting on towards winter here and tourist and holidaymaker numbers are much lower than summertime. Guess it could be heaving …
Hard Work in Taupo
... giant caldera volcano that erupts on average every 1000 years ...it's been 1800 years since the last eruption ...oh goody...
Saturday came around and Amy had her first full day at the Pumpkin Patch so while Amy was hard at work Cory and I headed out to Acacia Bay for some rolling practice (Cory had returned the previous evening for Bliss-Stick where he had spent the week on our recommendation, as such he was now eager to get out in his new boat!) After a couple ...
An Unexpected Journey: Job hunting in NZ
... in NZ is not the reason I came travelling…..I wanted to have new experiences, gain perspective, do things I can’t normally do in day-to-day treadmill of working life. Sometimes I take things too seriously….this job hunting process would turn into a job itself, the way I go about things…..and I didn’t want it to consume me. Ok, you have to put effort into these things but sometimes I just take it too far….I didn’t want to look back ...
Last Days of Kiwi
... in the hostel with a bucket of chilled coronas and a hostel made chilli watching some netball on the tv. The next day we made our final trip on the bus back up to Auckland with a quick morning stop off at the largest boiling mud pool in NZ. It was very bizarre to see but also funny as mud was once again glopping about and spouting in the air as it boiled away. We then headed off with our next stop for lunch in Matamata also known as Hobbiton as it ...