Collins Drive
2019年12月17日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
Collins Drive in the Broken Hills, Puketui Valley is an old mine that was used for gold mining. We could walk all the way through Collins Drive with a headlamp which was pretty cool.
Martha Mine
2019年12月17日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
Went for a walk on the Pit Rim Walkway in Waihi around Martha Mine and the Cornish Pumphouse.
Karangahake Gorge
2019年12月18日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Along our way we drove through this Gorge and stopped to have a look. We did part of the window walk. This place is another old gold mine.
Welcome to Hobbiton
2019年12月18日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌧 16 °C
Quick stop into Hobbiton or as it's actually called Matamata. We'll be back for more Lord of the Rings fun! 🌋
Isi's Birthday
2019年12月19日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
🎉🍕🎂🍷
Yaaay Isi turned 27 😁
We arrived at our wwoofing farm (18/12) 15 minutes outside Taupo and we really like it here. Our hosts, Steve and Rachel, and their doggos, Greg and Mrもっと詳しく
Aratiatia Dam
2019年12月21日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
The Aratiatia Dam in the Waikato River is used to create hydroelectric power sustainably for the region. The dam opens it's gates four times a day and it releases 80000 litres of water per second. Itもっと詳しく
Whakaipo Bay
2019年12月22日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Today we went for a swim in Lake Taupo at Whakaipo Bay after the farm work was done. The water was so clear! In the background of the first pictures you can see the snowy tip of Mountもっと詳しく
Huka Falls
2019年12月23日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Just before the Huka Falls the Waikato River enters a shallow ravine of hard volcanic rock which results in more than 220000 litres of water per second barreling over an 11 meter high waterfall. Thisもっと詳しく
Christmas Day
2019年12月25日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏼
We spent a lovely Christmas with Steve and Rachel at their farm, did a lot of cooking and eating and just had a great time 🥔🍗🥕🧀🍷
Maori Rock Carvings
2019年12月27日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Steve and Rachel gave us their paddle canoes to explore Lake Taupo and the Maori Rock Carvings.
Mount Tauhara
2019年12月29日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We climbed up Mount Tauhara and had a lovely but very windy view over Lake Taupo.
New Year's Eve
2019年12月31日, ニュージーランド ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
On the afternoon of the 31st of December we rounded off the old year relaxing and swimming at Whakaipo Bay.
New Year's Eve we spent with Steve and Rachel on their farm. We had cheesy nachos andもっと詳しく
Meeting Stephen
2020年1月1日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
After 6 and a half years of leaving Sydney Jake finally met up with Stephen again. Was real cool catching up and chilling in the lake.
Tongariro Crossing
2020年1月5日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Yay we did it, we hiked the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. The track itself is 19.4 km long but we did 23 km and finished it in just over 5 and a half hours. We had a great day. A lot of the track feltもっと詳しく
Meeting Steffi
2020年1月7日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
After 7 years Jake met Steffi again. We all, that is Jake and Isi and Steffi and Chris, had a lovely catch up and relaxed in the Hot Pools at Spa Park. See you in Köln for a burger! 🍔😊
Wwoofing
2020年1月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Time to say goodbye 😞
We loved our time on the farm. So here are some pictures of the farm life.
Steve and Rachel are lovely people and we will miss them and Greg and Mr Jones 🐶🐶 and theirもっと詳しく
Hobbiton Part 1
2020年1月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We finally got to see Hobbiton! 🧙🏼♂️
The movie set of Hobbiton from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was awesome. So many lovely details on the hobbit houses. We got to see Bilbo's andもっと詳しく
Hobbiton Part 2
2020年1月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Part 2 of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour because we just took too many good pictures 😁
Redwood Forest
2020年1月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Stroll through the Redwood Forest in Rotorua.
Kuirau Park I
2020年1月10日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Just a random park in Rotorua with loads of little hot pools, bubbling mud pools and steaming lakes. There's a lot of geothermal activity going on here. Just as everyone said it does smell quite eggyもっと詳しく
Wai-O-Tapu
2020年1月11日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Wai-O-Tapu is one of Rototura's geothermal areas. It was formed by thousands of years of volcanic activity. We got to see Lady Knox Geyser go off, bubbling mud pools, the Artist's Palette, theもっと詳しく
Mount Maunganui
2020年1月12日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
After a lovely ice cream (we had vanilla, boysenberry and hokey pokey) we climed up Mount Maunganui. It was well worth it, the views were stunning. After working up a sweat we went to cool off in theもっと詳しく
Papamoa Beach
2020年1月13日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Morning swim and cup of hazelnut coffee on Papamoa Beach.
Maketu Pies
2020年1月13日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
So we had this treat for lunch: Pie and Chips 😁🍟
Apparently the Maketu Pies are well known around here.




















































































































































