Travel Blog Photos from Central Otago (40)
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... was founded. And so, my travels came to a halt as I decided to earn some money to refill my slowly depleting travel budget. Central Otago is the fruit bowl of NZ with about 90% of the fruit coming from this area. Lots of the fruit is exported all ...
... will become apparent in a moment. The one major event of note was mid-semester break; Lisa and I did something called the Central Otago Rail Trail. It's an old railway line through the valleys of Otago which has been converted to a trail which we biked. ...
... an hilarious dry-witted Scotsman, whose brogue I am just beginning to understand,invited us out with his wife,Nyrie, for a trip into Central Otago. This area is like a plain or moor with tracts of tussocks(a clumped grass) and wide open spaces. It is also ...
... - from half a metre to three metres tall --> think Big Bird!) to extinction by burning the forests down. So Central otago is really scrubby because without the forests it is slipping toward desertification. so there it's a really unique landscape. We ...
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The Rail Trail in Central Otago - South island
Posted on Nov 10, 2008, 19:49:44
... ? That's just the beginning of the adventure one finds in the Otago Central region. If you miss Central Otago you miss a magic part of New Zealand. So what's this Rail Trail? From Middlemarch to Clyde it is one of the finest pathways in the ...
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A South Island Itinerary
Posted on Sep 3, 2009, 14:14:28
... shame but you will. We love it up here in what they call Central. Stay the night in Alexandra at the Alexandra Holiday Park. Central Otago - Alexandra, St Bathans, Naseby Take route 85 out of Alexandra inland. Make sure you pull off the main road to St. ...
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Part 5 - from the Catlins through Central
Posted on Apr 1, 2008, 02:09:41
... but you will. We love it up here in what they call Central. Stay the night in Alexandra at the Alexandra Holiday Park. Central Otago - Alexandra, St Bathans, Naseby Take route 85 out of Alexandra inland. Make sure you pull off the main road to St. ...
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Weather January in New Zealand
Posted on Jan 6, 2009, 17:28:35
... temperatures begun in June 2006. However, temperatures may be below average in S Westland. Warmest temperatures may be in Central Otago. In contrast, the W/NW winds may keep temperatures close to average in Wellington, Nelson, N Westland and Fiordland. ...
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