Celtic Motel Foxton

29 Purcell St., Foxton Foxton, North Island, New Zealand

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Our hike on Kapiti Island

A travel blog entry by nztoad

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... around the island. 20 years ago or so they turned it into a nature reserve. They regrew native trees and plants and protected the very unique birds that lived there. Some of which you can only find on this island and nowhere else in the world. During this time they trapped and killed 22,000 possums and 55,000 rats. It was predator free for many many years, but last year a ferret got on the island! So they are back to trapping for ferrets all over.

Because the island ...

Whistle while you work! Snow white is a twerp!

A travel blog entry by flicktom

... our own. Something Keith picked up on as he seemed to detest the name Flick and settled on Rose! Adrienne turned into a bit of a hater as Flick was perpetually told the people from the South East were pathetic, by the end of the week everyone in England was pathetic, or maybe it was just us. This was odd as she was constantly telling us of her proud Anglo heritage, pure English, although it was Yorkshire and Cornwall and they aren’t pathetic, or are ...

Back to the North

A travel blog entry by rachaelh

29th January

We drove up to Picton to catch our ferry at 12.30pm. The good news was that it was a much calmer crossing and no green faces, the bad news was that it poured with rain so we couldn't get out onto the deck.


We didn’t stop in Wellington as the weather was terrible so we drove up the West coast to camp at Himatangi Beach where there was some ...

Auckland-Coromandel -Mt Maunganui- Rotorua -Otaki

A travel blog entry by brewsters

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... camp out for a few nights along the beach in various locations.
We visited Hot Water Beach, where you can hire a spade (shovel) and dig yourself a hole where there is extremely hot water pumping up from the sand. Then it was off to Cathedral Cove for an hour hike through the mountains...once we reached the other side we were sitting on a white sand beach with beautiful blue waters. We walked through the cove, which is posted as no entrance recommended due ...

Storm on Jumbo Peak

A travel blog entry by schwate

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... wurde der Wind und der Regen jedoch staerker und jenseits der Baumgrenze auf 1100m Hoehe dann ziemlich unangenehm. Bin nach kurzer Pause weiter zum Jumbo Peak, aber der Wind wurde immer staerker, so dass ich dann beschlossen habe umzukehren bevor ich vom Berg geweht werde (nun, wohl unwahrscheinlich, auch wenn der Wind Orkanartig war) oder zu sehr unterkuehle (eher wahrscheinlich, mit dem starken Regen und dem ...