 | Once upon a glacier...
2002-03-09, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: cyfer13 | | Misadventures of Scott, Chad, and Moses: Volume III, Chapter 4 (i think ;)
Heya. Well, we're in the adventure capital of the world. THat's what they say at least. But it is remniscent of Interlocke... |
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 | It's been a while
2002-03-06, Arthur's Pass, New Zealand. By: cyfer13 | | Misadventures of Scott, Chad, and Moses: Volume III,
Chapter 3
Ok, so sue me...we've been bad at email. Partly because it's been really expensive, and partly because some of the places didn't have... |
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| Logistics and other fun stuff
2002-02-24, Wellington, New Zealand. By: cyfer13 | | Misadventures of Scott, Chad, and Moses: Volume III,
Chapter 2
Hey everyone. I write to you now, 800km south of Auckland in the city of Wellington. We've made a mad dash to run down to the south i... |
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| Our big purchase
2002-02-22, Auckland, New Zealand. By: cyfer13 | | So I'm in Auckland again and Chad is sitting next to me typing furiously. We were able to meet up with no problems last night. Then we spent the night negogiating with two Dutch women to pruchase th... |
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| A new member of the traveling family
2002-02-22, Auckland, New Zealand. By: cyfer13 | | The Misadventures of Scott, Chad, and Moses: Volume III, Chapter 1
So this will be the second time that I write this letter, since halfway through the first letter, the computer decided to reboot i... |
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 | pesky weather!
2004-11-26, Pahia, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hello! Another day, another ridiculous outdoor activity!
After I wrote last we got the ferry from the South Island back to North Island and pitched camp in the town of Wanganui. This is a histo... |
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| Glaciers to Beaches in under a week
2004-11-20, Nelson, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hi all! We've had a busy week since last I wrote...here's the highlights in an 'edited' version...
Lake Wanaka
After Queenstown we drove north to Wanaka and stopped at 'Stuart Landsborough's am... |
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| Aaarrgghhhhh!!!
2004-11-13, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hope you all answered the questions in Mel's update. I think there may have been some sort of computer error inserting all those question marks. Hope I have more luck!
Most of you will probably be ... |
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| Water and air
2004-11-13, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hello all! We’ve had a great few days ?On Wednesday we started with a cruise across Lake Manapouri, then a quick tour of a hydro electric power station. The immense amount of rain they get each year... |
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 | Farewell New Zealand
2004-11-11, Christchurch, New Zealand. By: rossa | | And so I'm back where I started my South Island travels, in Christchurch. I fly out to Australia tomorrow morning at 0635 so I shan't be doing much today. I've treated myself to a haircut (the dreadlo... |
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 | Prawn? Which one Prawn?
2004-11-09, Dunedin, New Zealand. By: rossa | | A quiet day today. The only touristy thing I did was to go and see Baldwin Street, the "Steepest street in the world", according to the Guiness Book of Records. And it was. Very. My lungs will vouch f... |
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 | David Attenborough eat your heart out!
2004-11-08, Dunedin, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Caught the bus yesterday from Te Anau to Dunedin, a city with a Scottish heritage, in the South-East.
I spent a couple of hours this morning in the Otago museum, mainly to see an exhibition about S... |
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 | Te Anau
2004-11-06, Te Anau, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Finally managed to get the "reflections in the lake" - had to get up early for it though! And lady luck was on my side for once -just as I'd taken the photos, a flock of seagulls landed on the water!
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| Mini Golf in the rain anyone?
2004-11-08, Te Anau, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hi all...We're in Te Anau now, in Fjordland country on the South West Coast. We've had a quiet few days driving along the empty roads of Southland New Zealand, literally speechless with the staggerin... |
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 | Mountains at last!
2004-11-03, Wanaka, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Back to travelling on my own today. I've come further South to Wanaka. The bus journey, over the Southern Alps was, I have to say it, awesome!! Finally was able to see blue skies and snow-covered moun... |
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 | Glacier overload
2004-11-02, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: rossa | | We caught the morning bus to Fox Glacier (about an hour South). Having already seen a glacier close-up we decided to give it a miss and do a walk through the rainforest (no, it didn't rain!).
There... |
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 | Slippin' and slidin'
2004-11-01, Franz Josef, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Today, as planned, we took the guided walk onto the glacier. I won't bore you with ALL the facts and figures but they get about 7m of rain a year at the bottom of the glacier and over 30m of snow at t... |
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| Soup and beer!
2004-10-31, Franz Josef, New Zealand. By: rossa | | On the bus to Franz Josef I got talking to a guy from Doncaster and we decided to do a walk up to the glacier. Five hours later we'd done it (no it hadn't melted). We walked up to a point where we wer... |
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| Go by bus!!!!
2004-10-30, Greymouth, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Today it was an early start in order to catch the Tranz Alpine train from Christchurch to Greymouth on the west coast.
The Tranz Alpine is said to be one of the top 6, most picturesque train journe... |
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| White Water Sledging... Sport or Suicide?
2004-10-30, Wellington, New Zealand. By: melanie | | Hello all. This is Paul writing so you can assume from this that I survived the White Water Sledging that Mel spoke of in the last entry. Whilst doing the sledging I doubted that I would survive it to... |
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 | Not the eyes! Not the eyes!!!!
2004-10-28, Kaikoura, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Another day of clear skies and warm sunshine!
Went for a long walk around the coastline and back along the clifftops. More seals along the way and large colonies of gulls some of which took great e... |
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 | Thar she blows!
2004-10-27, Kaikoura, New Zealand. By: rossa | | At last! A success with one of my tick-list of things to do and see.
I've travelled by bus, 3hrs North, to Kaikoura on the East coast. It's one of the best places in the world for viewing whales - ... |
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 | Factor 20 required!
2004-10-26, Christchurch, New Zealand. By: rossa | | Yesterday I said my farewell to North Island and flew down to Christchurch, South Island. I must be one of the few people who actually enjoy airline food, and as my ticket stated "lunch included" you ... |
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| Welcome back, man....
2004-10-23, Auckland, New Zealand. By: rossa | | So here I am, back where I started in Auckland, at the same psycadelic hostel! I arrived here yesterday after driving a total of nearly 2400kms over the past 2 weeks!
I'm staying here until Monday wh... |
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