Rotorua is our second home. We LOVE Rotorua because of the outdoors life style and because that is where our eldest daughter and her family live. Mountain biking and walking in the majestic Redwood Forest is one of our happy places Swimming, water skiing, paddle boarding and boating in one of Rotorua’s 16 lakes are…
“Lets just shoot to Oamaru Andy and look at Waitaki Boys High School where my grandfather (Russell Darragh) went to college, then we will head through to Timaru as planned,” I suggested. But then… we discovered an incredible side to Oamaru that we didn’t know existed! We are staying two nights now as this place…
“Hey Andy, watch me I am going to leap frog over this Moeraki boulder!” It’s been years since I played leap frog, I was super excited until I realised my legs didn’t open wide enough and I was stuck only half way and still going over when Andy took the picture. It was a ‘oh…
We woke up to the sun shining, we were so excited. On went the stove coffee pot, we swung the caravan door open and sat on the step and had coffee in the sun overlooking the sea at Brighton. We free camped here overnight, what an ideal spot. For the second time in two weeks we…
Our alarm went off at the crack of dawn and we were on the road by 7.30am to Purakanui waterfall. It’s NZ’s most photographed waterfall and one can see why: We also visited the McLaren Waterfall and she too was extremely beautiful. Andy and I couldn’t decide which one was the winner because they were both…
This was our last night in Curio Bay and the gift it gave us. The sunset of all sunsets, one we have never seen before. If we didn’t know better, we would have thought the sky was on fire. Good bye Curio bay, you did delight us also in showing the last of your attractions before…
Today took us from raincoats this morning to sun hats this afternoon. Off to Waikawa Point we went. A sight was awaiting us; one Sea lion frolicking in the water and two bathing on the beach. We watched Mr Sea lion snuggle up to his Mrs Sea lion and a Miss Sea lion trying to…
I didn’t have the best sleep, thinking that we had so much rain that we could topple down the cliff we’d parked on with a good wind. I thought I’d better put my knickers on in case we did fall down the cliff and someone had to rescue us. I love that this is all…
Stewart Island you will hold a place in our hearts forever. The locals are beautiful people. If we stayed here, it would be hard to return to the mainland, we get that! What we take away from here are experiences such as the kiwi spotting – we saw two, one up very close, which gave…
We went with the wind today and took the scenic road from Te Anau to Riverton which was a sight to behold. We chose the Riverton Camping Ground (the second best we’ve stayed in down here). Andy had to set up in the rain, he was soaked, but the camp had a great hall with…
