Wednesday, 29 August 2007
In My 24th Year I Jumped Off A Building!
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
My Birthday!!!!
Cruising with Dolphins!
Cape Reinga -the very top of New Zealand!
Coromandel Peninsula, Cathedral Cove and on to Bay of Islands
A stop in Opononi Bay to see a 50year old video of the region's famous friendly dolphin, "opo" before we arrived in Paihia -The Bay of Islands and into a fantastic little hostel where we had a dorm room all to our selves! Bless the winter season!
Mount Maunganui: Defying gravity, My Helmet and a Crazy Man!
Rotorua Again for Traditional Maori Haka and Hangi!
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
My Two Nights Behind Bars!
We'd heard along our travels of people staying in a hostel that used to be a prison, we'd also heard that it was suppose to be haunted but thought it'd be cool to stay in a prison cell all the same!
The rest of Napier town was rebuilt in the 1930's after the big 1931 erathquake so all the bulidings are Art-deco...very pretty!
Wellington Movie Tours: The Final Installment of our LOTR Tours!
We also had time to see the boat used in King Kong where they had painted rust on to it, and now all that's left is the rusty-looking boat. We were told about up coming film projects and even had time to skulk outside the Weta Studios and take stalker-type pictures of the figurines (a mighty lifesize one of the orc Lurtz) they had up in the windows...including one from the film "Labyrinth"! Me and Jen saw it and squealed..."Labyrinth!", the two younger girls on the tour had no clue what the 80's film was! It was a sad, sad moment!
Saturday, 18 August 2007
There and Back Again.
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Christchurch & Kaikorua
Then it was on to Kaikoura, which was a sweet little town. We decided to spend a day walking around the Kaikoura Peninsula. The strangest thing happened...it was sunny and 18 degrees so we had to de-layer! The first time since arriving in New Zealand. Still nothing can get me to give up my cosy thermals yet! Well, perhaps Fiji will.
Monday, 6 August 2007
Snow in August!
It was time to leave Dunedin behind for Lake Tekapo, which is on the other side of the Mount Cook we had previously been seeing from the west side. We stopped on route to see a very strange pale blue lake apparently the result of "rock flour" from glaciers but to me looked like blue bath milk.
We stayed in a little hostel along the lake front and the next day we woke up to snow! So we decided to climb the thus snow-capped Mount John (1031 metres)! Armed with muesli bars, an orange and cucumber sandwiches we began our ascent up through the snow! It was really pretty with the snow resting on the pine trees and the surrounding mountains now completely caked in snow. We took our time, finding fresh snow to tread upon, to have a snowball showdown (where we both missed each other...so useless!), making two miniature snowman by the path side plus there was even time to make a couple of snow angels!
Then it was up the slippy, powdery snow to the top view point but with all the snow we'd gone off the path a bit - if only we'd had a sledge and huskies! But we soon made it up and had a fantastic panoramic view of the mountain range and lake to eat our sandwiches by.
It was then a more relaxing tramp down along the lake edge back to the hostel for a nice Sunday dinner of salmon, potatoes and broccoli spouts...all free thanks to a peculiar but generous woman from South London that off loaded her food on to us!
It was then a more relaxing tramp down along the lake edge back to the hostel for a nice Sunday dinner of salmon, potatoes and broccoli spouts...all free thanks to a peculiar but generous woman from South London that off loaded her food on to us!
"Carla and The Chocolate Factory"
LOTR and Milford Sound!
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