Goodbye Austrailia hello New Zealand
2025年2月28日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Up first thing this morning, left hotel with boxed brekkie in hand at 630am. Checked in, cruised through security and departure check-in; time for coffee and shopping duty free!
Set up comfortably inもっと詳しく
Auckland
2025年3月1日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Kiwis are generally proud of their home. Aucklanders have a reputation around the north and south isles of being so. Others refer to them as JAFAs meaning just another (friendly) Aucklander. There areもっと詳しく
Auckland Museum
2025年3月1日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
As museums go, this one is alright. Good insight to the indigenous history as well as the European history. The big dinosaur bird thing is a Moa. Extinct now but was here when the Polynesians firstもっと詳しく
Waitomo Caves
2025年3月2日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
There are a series of caves to visit here. Our tour got tickets for the Glow Worm cave. Of course no photos were allowed in the cave as it might disturb the glow worms. The picture you see is of aもっと詳しく
Te puia Thermal Reserve
2025年3月2日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
This place is smokin’ hot. Not the air but the ground. Neither Dianne or I have ever seen a geyser before so this is a nice addition to our travels. The rocks around us are literally hot to touch.もっと詳しく
Te Puia Cultural dance and art school
2025年3月2日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Te Puia is the home to the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. The tour guides, artisans and performers are from the indigenous community and I understand that the family as our guide Mr. T, referred toもっと詳しく
Rotorua to Wellington
2025年3月3日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
A few pictures from the road trip.
Wellington City Tour
2025年3月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Wellington is the capitol of New Zealand and the parliament buildings were the first stop on todays tour. Next was the Lady Norwood Rose Garden where we took the opportunity to walk for a short timeもっと詳しく
Mt Victoria Summit
2025年3月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Nice 360 degree view of Wellington from up here. The runway is 6800 feet.
Wellington Museum
2025年3月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
We had an excellent guide at the Wellington Museum. He married a Canadian girl from Vancouver island and his mother in law told him to be extra friendly with Canucks. He was. The museum seemed to beもっと詳しく
Ferry Wellington to Blenheim
2025年3月4日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
The ferry to Picton is between 3 1/2 to 4 hours. We got off about 4 1/2 hours after embarking, and I was glad to see that ferry behind me. It was a smooth enough ride, it became tedious. When it wasもっと詳しく
Blenheim
2025年3月5日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
A bit of a sleep in today; makes us happy! Went for a morning walk to pick up lunch and travel goodies. Left on the bus for a short ride to a winery!
Wine tasting before 11am! We went to a winery inもっと詳しく
Sights on the way to Christchurch
2025年3月5日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Driving along the ocean we stopped to take pictures of some seals. A few other sights as well.
Train to Arthurs pass
2025年3月6日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Christchurch is still recovering from the earthquake of 2010. Our hotel is across the street from the Cathedral and there is a ways to go on the restoration. The city though seems to have shaken itもっと詳しく
Hokitika
2025年3月6日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Spent about 90 minutes here walking around and having a coffee. Named for the Hokitika river, and where it meets the ocean.
Franz Josef
2025年3月6日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Franz Josef is a glacier. Today it was shrouded in cloud, so no pictures of the glacier. We walked around the area for about 20 minutes. The town we stayed in is Franz Josef and it small andもっと詳しく
Jet boating!
2025年3月7日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The Haast River is fed by glaciers, and that is the reason for the aqua colour of the water. The pilot of our jet boat, Amber, is knowledgeable about the area, as well as flora and fauna. She lives inもっと詳しく
Queenstown Hike
2025年3月8日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
We had a day off from bus riding so Dianne and I took the opportunity to hike around Queenstown. Walked around 20 Kms. around the lake and through the park. Queenstown is the starting point for fiordもっと詳しく
Queenstown sites
2025年3月8日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
I heard that the best burger in town is the furburger . I misheard the reference, it is actually the Fergburger. Even the ducks have heard about the legendary burger.
Bus, Boat, Bus, Boat, ….repeat!
2025年3月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
What a day we had today. It was quite the adventure. Early start (as usual), road the bus for about 3 hour to Manapouri. From here we hopped on a jet boat (a larger one) to cross Lake Manipouri. Thatもっと詳しく
Doubtful Sound
2025年3月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
More pictures from Doubtful Sound. It was truly a magical day!
Te Anau
2025年3月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
“Glowing land” on the banks of Lake Te Anua . Te Anua is a quaint lakeside town where we arrived in time for dinner, sleep and on the road by 830am.
On the road again…
2025年3月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Today, another big trip. We are on our way to Dunedin. Our lunch stop was in a little town of Owaka. I think it is a quirky place from what I’ve seen, but the people are certainly friendly.
Nugget Point
2025年3月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We made a stop at the lighthouse on Nugget Point. A bit of a walk and some pictures.
