Thursday, January 15, 2009

Kiwi Signage

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Vicki and I love signage. Our house in Missoula featured sign forests all over, and we're still “collecting.” Kiwi signage is some of th...

Rob Roy, 2009

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On the advice of some experienced senior trampers at the Altamont, we drove the 80km west and north of Wanaka (last half unsealed, with six ...

Wanaka in a Day

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Well, we did not actually do Wanaka, so to speak, although our stay there, at the Altamont Lodge, was pretty satisfactory. Our morning inclu...
Friday, January 9, 2009

Rain from Hasst to Wanaka

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Rain at Lake Hawea On the Hasst Highway Headlands Bluff, Near Hasst Just before Hasst, heading south, one encounters what must be the world...

Don't Go Too Near the Glaciers

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Beginning around Greymouth, on the coast, the land begins to change. Everything turns grey, the rock, the rivers, etc. The weather also turn...

Give Way

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One of the South Island's many charms is the custom of occasionally combining railroad with auto/truck bridges. The bridges are mostly o...

Heaphy to Pancakes

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Tuesday morning we hiked a few miles of the Heaphy Track, which begins at the campground, up through the bush to Scott's Overlook and Sc...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

What Do They Eat When They Can't Get Hobbit?

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Across the pass and into the west side of the island, we drove on to Westport and then north on the coast road, 67, as far as it goes, past ...

Aloft

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"...he seemed to hear the noise of dim waves and to see a winged form flying above the waves and slowly climbing the air...an ecstasy o...
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Monday, January 5, 2009

Time and Tide

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The really interesting part of the Abel Tasman, apart from the unspeakably gorgeous scenery throughout, is the tidal crossings. The tides he...

Mozzies, Boaties, and Turning Custard

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The Abel Tasman National Park occupies a northern coastline and interior of the South Island. It is still temperate land, and the coast itse...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happy New Year, All

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It's Tuesday afternoon, December 30th, and I am blogging from the public library in Motueka, South Island, where we are provisioning up ...

First Day on South Island

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One Ring to Rule Them All... Our morning project, having debarked safely at Picton after a smooth voyage was swapping out campervans. The gr...

Day in Wellington, Night at Sea

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Our day in Wellington was good, several hours at Te Papa, the wonderful still new and technologically up-to-date national museum on the harb...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Folfing at Orthanc, in Isengard

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Today we did a day tour with Wellington Movie Tours, seeing the various Wellington and Hutt River LOTR sites...Isengard, Rivendell, the shor...