Tag: South Island
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A puzzling trip to the gardens in Queenstown
Today was leaving time again. So off I went to Queenstown. The adrenaline city. Everybody stays here for a few days to do all kind of jumping. Be it bungy jumping, sky diving, canyon swings, mountainbiking, ziplining or in the house of horrors. The first stop is – no not Queenstown. That would be too…
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The freedom of flying and another mountain
Yesterday I decided to do something that actually involves somes adrenalin. So today I am going to take flying lesson. But I’m not only going to do a tame round over the lakes. – I’m going to learn some aerobatics. You know the stuff with loopings, rools, corkscrews, stall turns and all that stuff. I’m…
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Walk to Glendhu Bay
As I am running out of places to stay and still have a lot of time I decided to stay a little bit longer in Wanaka. One of the day tramps for a view up the mountains (Roys peak) was closed due to lambing I decided to do the tramp up to Glendhu bay. This…
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I doesn’t rain in southern New Zealand …
… man – it pours. It started in the night but it did not stop in the morning either. It was pouring water out of those clouds. Good thing that we where supposed to drive on anyway. Todays morning stop was supposed to be Lake Matheson. A nice clear lake where the biggest mountain of…
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Franz-Josef Glacier
The next morning we were treated to breakfast with pancakes and bacon. (To combat the hangover the previous evening and night had brought.) After all were well fed and had some rest it was time to go on to Franz-Josef where we where supposed to be able to go get a helicopter ride onto the…
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Night skies at Lake Mahinapua
I did not actually see the entrance to the costume party though. I had decided to take advantage of the secluded lake and take some pictures of the night sky. So I went back to the lake with tripod and camera. Going through the woods was spooky enough even though I was in the middle…
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To Greymouth and Lake Mahinapua
Greymouth’s claim to fame is that the train that crosses Arthurs pass coming from Christchurch ends here. So it is one of the places where you can start a tour with Kiwi Experience. The other thing that is important for us is that this place is home to three thriftshops. Why is that important –…
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Fuller River and Pancacke rocks
This time the morning was filled with activities for all those that wanted to spend some more money. I for my part had decided that I wanted to go on a Jetboat and try how it feels like to do some 360 degree spins on a river. So we stored our stuff on the big…
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Nelson Lakes to Westport
New driver – Lisa. For some reason she had two more passengers on board than on the manifest. Usually not that big of a problem: Fess up and she adds you on on the spot. Bigger problem though if you don’t fess up, the bus is full and she starts just to find out that…
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Discovering Abel Tasman
Today was a bit of tramping on the menu. But first I went with one of the sea shuttles all the way up the national park past two different sea lion colonies. Halfway through the trip the captain informed us that the boat had trouble with the hydraulics working the gangway. So some of the…