Mount Cook - Or no Mount Cook - as you can see, you can't quite see it. The few days we were in the area the rain at mount cook just didn't clear, and we weren't prepared to wait a week for the weather to improve! We could have driven up anyway but I don't [...]
We were just cruising up Lindis pass a long winding mountain ridge on our way to lake Tekapo when just as we were getting to the top or the ridge we had an almighty explosion ! Not an ideal place to break down ! so needless to say, we didn't hang around taking photos on [...]
We enjoyed being back in Cromwell which is so familiar to us now - We know all the best swim spots, kids parks, and all the boring stuff you need to know like where to restock food, launderettes and where to get fresh water and off load our waist, - ( boring - all the [...]
Since the historic aviation and steam show we've been working our way back up the north island stopping off in some familiar spots we've stopped before which makes a change from planning from place to place. We've dotted along back the way we came to Fortrose estuary camp spot where friends visited us for the [...]
Paul was lucky enough to have a flight in a Tiger Moth. Thanks to Glenn the pilot and the museum team he had a awesome flight, one to remember.
Ok it's not everyday we get the opertunity of a ride on a steam train from the 1800s.Over the weekend I think we had 4 rides up and down the track. We just loved it, the sound of the train track, click lack, the smell of the old oils and grease built up over the [...]
A weekend of steam and aviation fun for all in Mandeville, which is just north of gore. We're far from historians but do appreciate the steam era. The girls enjoyed a few rides in the passenger steam train finding all the noises, smells, and energy of a steam train rail ride fascinating. A range different [...]
Working our way along the catlins we visited the 170 million year old petrified forest, here on the very edge of the rigged coast. It seems hard to get your head around so many millions of years gone by, and so many changes to our planet have passed, yet the trees are still here! We [...]
Soon after arriving here to Curio bay we heard about the resident dolphins and how they love to swim with the surfers and the visitor swimmers. We looked out above the beach to see them swimming just out beyond the surf. The girls we're so excited to get in he water with them, we quickly [...]
It's been particularly nice to be at slop point and stay in one place for a while where we can keep a good routine as a family. As we travel and visit new, and old friends Isla's anxiety rises. As their kitchens aren't locked, unlike ours in our bus, so we have to keep a [...]
