 | Bungy!
2003-01-17, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | My jump was scheduled for 10:15. So, you can probably imagine that the two hours from waking up to doing the jump were torture -- especially when we drove up to the bridge! Cathy and Nghi came with ... |
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 | Wanaka and first night in Queenstown
2003-01-16, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | Our drive to Queenstown was great. We stopped along the way and say some beautiful waterfalls and spent the afternoon by the lake in Wanaka. Wanaka is a smaller, quieter version of Queenstown. It i... |
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 | Fox and Franz Joseph Glaciers
2003-01-13, Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | We headed for the Fox and Franz Joseph glaciers in the am and saw the Pancake Rocks on the way down the coast. These are rocks that have been pushed up from the sea floor and for some reason (they st... |
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 | Two Days in Abel Tasman
2003-01-12, Abel Tasman, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | I was very excited about Abel Tasman -- I had heard from many people that it is the most beautiful part of NZ and I was not disappointed.
We sea kayaked the first day which was a blast. According ... |
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| Finally, the South Island!
2003-01-10, South Island, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | We took the ferry over to the South Island first thing in the morning. The ferry was very scenic, especially leaving Wellington and coming into Picton.
I had heard from almost everyone I talked to... |
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| Stuck in Taupo
2003-01-09, Taupo, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | Well, we were unable to do the Tongariro crossing (we have heard from numerous people that we have met along the way the the walk is amazing -- oh well, you win some and lose some) due to weather. So ... |
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 | The Kiwi Experience
2003-01-09, Rotorua, New Zealand. By: Flyin_Scot | | The Kiwi Experience
Day one and I was leaving Auckland for the Coromandel and particularly the town of Whitianga where tonights accommodation was located. The journey took us through the NZ coutry... |
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 | The City of Sails
2003-01-04, Auckland, New Zealand. By: Flyin_Scot | | The city of sails fully lived up to my expectations as New Year's day progressed,
many aucklanders took to the sea to enjoy the beautiful weather. I'm definently not used to bringing in the New Yea... |
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| Waiotopo and Huka Falls
2003-01-08, Taupo, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | I left Rotorua this morning for Taupo with a few stops on the way. I shared a car and guide with Cathy, a woman from London who I met in Rotorua. Waiotopo was another geothermal park that was simila... |
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| Rotorua Day 2 -- Hell's Gate
2003-01-07, Rotorua, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | Today was spent visiting the geothermal park called Hell's gate. It was like nothing I have ever seen before, other worldish actually. Boiling mud pools, bubbling mud and sulphur, sulphur pools, wat... |
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| Day 1 in Rotorua
2003-01-06, Rotorua, New Zealand. By: cspeck | | I met two Canadian women, Kirstin and Donna, in Auckland and headed to Rotorua with them the Mon., day after I arrived in NZ.
Rotorua is a center of thermal activity nicknamed "Sulphur City" which... |
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 | our last tramp
2002-12-05, Christchurch, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | Our time in New Zealand is coming to an end, good thing we have onward tickets because we could spend a lot more time here, but we have so many more countries to see. We had to part with our car recen... |
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 | Tramping
2002-11-23, Dunedin, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | Well since I typed last Pat and I have been enjoying our travels. The days just after my last entry Pat and I did quite a bit of driving getting down to the Fiordlands to do some more tramping. We cam... |
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| Queen Charlotte Track
2002-11-06, Nelson, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | While on the ferry (which was a different experience) over to the South Island, Pat and I met Heiner (he told us we could call him Henry) a german guy a couple years younger than us (everyone is young... |
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| Awaiting our ferry to the South Island
2002-10-31, Wellington, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | The capital of New Zealand is Wellington just on the southern tip of the North Island and that is where Pat and I are currently for a couple days awaiting our ferry journey over to the South Island. W... |
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| the north island
2002-10-28, Rotorua, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | AFter Auckland Pat and i worked our way up North to the Bay of islands, and the Coromandel Penninsula. Both were beautiful!! Near the Bay of Islands is a hike called the Cape Brett Track it's about 12... |
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 | City Life
2002-10-19, Auckland, New Zealand. By: supafitch | | Pat and I arrived in Auckland New Zealand yesterday and have seen a bit of the city. Auckland is called the capital of the South Pacific being the largest city here. We have seen the Sky Tower which i... |
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 | A Beautiful Town
2002-09-19, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | We left Mt. Cook in the rain and arrived a short hour later in Lake Tekapo. Another beautiful town on a lake with beautiful snow covered mountains. Once again we are staying at the YHA it has big pict... |
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 | Riding Out the Storm in a Cabin
2002-09-17, Mount Cook, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | We traveled for four hours from Queenstown to Mt. Cook arriving for the last clear view of Mt. Cook… a two day storm was blowing in right behind us. I sit here in the dining room enjoying the small of... |
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 | Felting Mad Hatters
2002-09-16, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | Back in Queentown for a night we stayed at the YHA this time overlooking the lake and mountains. Yes I know… every city sounds the same… a spectacular view of snow-covered mountains and beautiful lake... |
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 | Fooled by Doubtful Penguins
2002-09-14, Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | We stayed in the town of Te Anau which is once again set on an alpine lake surrounded by snow covered mountains. Our YHA hostel was across the street from an old historic café called The Redcliff Café... |
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 | Our Friend the New Zealand Fur Seal Pup
2002-09-13, Milford Sound, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | Still traveling together, Nicky and I head out for the Fiordlands National Park for a hike through the forest and then on to Milford Sound where we took a cruise on the sound and stayed the night in a... |
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 | Crashing the Party
2002-09-11, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | Taxi to Lodge
The drive from Wanaka to Queenstown was fast and we were there before we knew it. We picked a remote place to stay a short walk from town called the Pinewood Lodge. Since we were now tr... |
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 | Hitchhiking for Wool
2002-09-08, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | On my bus trip to the next town it was raining really hard and there were waterfalls, sometimes every 100 feet, major falls running from the top of the mountains all the way down to the road and beyon... |
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 | Pancake Rocks, Blowholes and Glaciers
2002-09-06, Punikaiki, New Zealand. By: sbirch | | I took a bus to Franz Joseph Glacier and along the way we stopped at a placed called Punikaiki famous for it’s blow-holes and rock formations (lots of thin stacked layers that the locals call pancake ... |
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