New Zealand: Sea Kayaking
We’re in for an early morning safety briefing. This is your boat. These are the pedals you will use to steer your boat. Wait, what? Push the top half of […]
We’re in for an early morning safety briefing. This is your boat. These are the pedals you will use to steer your boat. Wait, what? Push the top half of […]
A short morning drive through the agricultural paradise of apple orchards, vineyards, and hop farms delivered us to a campsite in Marahau close to 11am. We had arrived at the […]
Greymouth was approximately a 45 minute drive away from our next destination, Punakaiki. Another town consisting of a few houses, a gift shop and a tourist attraction. The best time […]
We left Franz Josef after our bath. We had an appointment the following afternoon in the town of Greymouth, over 170km away. Nobody was keen on being the group who […]
The Franz Josef township is another testament to the value of tourism in New Zealand. It was what I had expected to find at Milford Sound. The short main street […]
I walked through the camp ground down to the Haast River. It’s obvious to see from here, Tolkien never considered New Zealand as the setting of his stories. The water […]
It had been 24 hours since I had last seen my journal. It had to be somewhere in the van. I was convinced that I had put it in the […]
Let us buck the trend a little here. I’m going to continue on from the night before as there is still a little more to share. Something that I’ve developed […]
There was no immediate pay off in the morning. The clouds were still clinging to the peaks. The sky was bleak, dark and heavy. I would have to hope for […]
Sightseeing For the last two days the sun has been out and the days have been glorious. I’ve been wandering back and forth throughout the neighbourhoods of Portland, doing my […]