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What a difference a day (or two) make!!
... way considering our drive the following day. However what a stunning drive and beautiful area. It is called the Banks peninsular and is made up of lots of valleys, inlets and bays. We eventually arrive at Akaroa a small, lovely village on the edge of a bay. We checked into the Akaroa Village Inn where we had an ...
Christchurch shenanigans...
... the “High Street” I saw 1 other person. The entire city centre is cordoned off as a red zone- a dangerous place where buildings could fall down at any point – of course google maps hadn’t told me about this and was directing me straight through the middle of them. After 2 and a half hours I finally found the street I was looking for when a middle aged woman on a bike rode up and stopped next to me. “Do you know where you’re going? Do ...
Home again.......
... pilots and refuelled us so we could turn around and head back down, but after this was all done, the new pilots found that the conditions had actually worsened so we wouldn't be leaving Auckland at all.
We then had to wait for the ground staff to get called in early as there were no staff to process us into Auckland. Once off the plane, we cleared customs, got our bags and headed for the counter at the far end of the ...
Happy camping
... so was I.
3) When nature gives you hints. If the streams you are camping next to are frozen and the wildlife isn't even stupid enough to be out in the cold, surely that's a sign?! Ok, the hardy merino wool sheep were manning up, but most of the other sheep had been put away for winter and the little stoats and possums were nowhere to be seen. Luckily NZ's bird life was still out in force and we were ...
Dunedin, Catlins, Christchurch und ab "nach Hause"
... wir im Wasser kennengelernt hatten.
Vom Curio Bay fuhren wir wieder Richtung Dunedin und legten auf dem Weg zurück einige Stopps ein. Im Curio Bay besuchte wir einen Petrified Forest (versteinerten Wald). Im Jura (vor 170 Millionen Jahren) wuchsen dort Farne, Bäume und Palmen die dann versteinerten. Diese Versteinerungen werden nun vom Meer freigewaschen und bei Ebbe kann man die Steinformationen sehen. Man kann den Wald tatsächlich erahnen, da man von ...
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