This morning as we drove out of Hanmer Springs the sky was stunning. The flat Hanmer basin is ringed at the horizon by the mountains of New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Some were already snow covered. The lenticular clouds and clear blue sky between capping the mountains was incredibly beautiful.
Two hours later we were in Christchurch. […]
A quick change of plans and we decided to head straight to Napier from Coromandel and cut out the two day drive around the East Cape of the North Island. We felt that moving from place to place every two or three days was cramping our style and wasn’t allowing us to get the proper […]
We’ve landed on the south island after a very smooth ferry crossing yesterday afternoon from Wellington to Picton. Today we’re heading west to the beautiful Golden Bay region where we will do two back-to-back wwoofings for a total of seven nights. These should be a bit more ‘light’ than the stint we did at Mara […]
Monday April 3, aboard the Cook Straight Ferry, travelling from the North Island to the South Island.
Today is my “American Birthday,” since it’s April 2nd in the US. Yesterday was my New Zealand birthday, 2nd April here, and what a birthday it was and is, capping several days of intense and rewarding socialisation.
After a month […]