Nelson City Stories


Awesome Tasman Park

On the long drive to Nelson, we stop off for a night at Punakaiki – the Pancake Rocks. Strange limestone formations which look like (surprisingly) giant stacked pancakes. Suppose the real attraction is the shear size of the area they cover and the (extremely) violent blowhole that has been formed by the wave action. 30th March and we arrive in Nelson...


Out of the rain and into the sunshine

Friends and family, It has been far too long since the last update and this email will try to make up for it. :-) After leaving Queenstown at New Years, our team went to Te Anau... in the Fiordlands of NZ. It's a beautiful rain forest that reminded me a lot of Oregon and Washington, especially the Olympic National Park area. Simply beautiful. We s...