Sunday 1 Mar 2015. Day 12. Bus and Ferry to Stewart Island. Early start 5:50am with a bus pickup at 6:50am. First bus...
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New Zealand 2015 – Kepler Track
Preparation. We began prep for these three walk in December 2014 and January 2015 with walks from Charlottes Pass up...
New Zealand 2014 weeks 3 and 4 – Heaphy Track – Part 2
Monday 24 Mar 2014. A sparking sunny day. Almost 7 hour walk - 12 km. We really dawdled the first 3km looking at 2,000...
New Zealand 2014 weeks 3 and 4 – Heaphy Track – Part 1
Sunday 16 March 2014. The 6:15 am alarm had us up so we would be ready for our 7:30am pickup from the front of Almond...
New Zealand 2014 week 2
Monday 10 March 2014. A relaxing day in the hot pools of Hanmer Springs spa. Excellent. We purchased a 'senior day...
New Zealand 2014 week one
Monday 3 Mar 2014 Christchurch. Today we begin a 4 week trip to NZ - to do three walks - Banks Peninsula, Nydia and...
Routeburn Track New Zealand March 2011
This will cover our Routeburn walk in March 2011. We have walked this NZ Great Walk before (2004). We are doing the...
Catlins and Southland NZ 2011
Mar 18 Friday. A day off at Queenstown. We did little except do the washing (Helen), eat and I visited a physio to see...
New Zealand 2011 Rees Dart Track
This and the next two posts describes our trip to NZ in March 2011. We walked two tracks. The Rees-Dart and the...