Our first Saturday off together in a few weeks, and with a new addition to our auto-family, decided to go for an early morning drive 🙂 The weather has been pretty miserable most of the week, but today it is stunningly beautiful, with barely a cloud in the sky! We headed up towards Mt Somers… Read More Saturday Adventures
So a lack of Internet has hindered me slightly with being able to update this, but here is a quick run down… First off a big mention for Nelson, we left this beautiful city on Sunday with one final trip to the fantastic markets on Saturday morning. I managed to eat my body weight in… Read More Just an update…
Working in a holiday park is quite handy when you become the tourist yourself on days off: It means you HAVE to learn about and know the area you are in to give guests the information they want and need. Lots of friendly people will come back and give you feedback on the places they… Read More Nelson’s Founders Park
Second day off this week the weather was muuuuuch better, so we headed back to Cable Bay (new favourite spot!) and did some snorkelling 🙂 Like a maniac, and wanting to finally make use of my well-travelled fins, I swam out to where Ben had kayaked (probably a record breaker by my standards! 😛 )… Read More Fish stalking…
Days off feel particularly special these days, so spent yesterday afternoon paddling around in the kayaks (they have been feeling neglected…) Weather was a bit rubbish in the morning, perfect excuse for a lie in 😛 but the sun broke through in the afternoon, so Ben, Wilson and I headed out of Nelson and to… Read More Kayaking Cable Bay
We got lucky today, free trip around the Abel Tasman National Park! Such stunning scenery in every direction, Southern Fur Seals, Sting Rays, birds of all shapes and sizes… Bliss! The trip involved a boat trip for a couple of hours, visiting a few famous spots such as ‘Split Apple Rock’ and the Fur seal… Read More Exploring Abel Tasman
This is a bit of a random way to start this entry… But steak in a camper! Very impressed with the head chef 😀 Yesterday we zoomed into Wellington for a brief visit, instantly fell in love with the Capital, in particular the harbour. Loads of cool restaurants and bars and pieces of art dotted… Read More To the South Island! (Via Wellington)
Yesterday we headed from Tauranga over the bridge to the beautiful Mount Mauganui, my friend Helen (and fellow Welshie in NZ!) lives there with her boyfriend Shane, they gave us a locals perspective of this unique little place 🙂                  … Read More Mount Mauganui
We went to two geothermal sites yesterday, both were pretty spectacular and very different! The first was… Here we saw the Lady Knox Geyser, this is manually set off every day for visitors to see, it was quite impressive! The other highlight of this site was the Champagne pool, amazing colours, it felt like being… Read More Rotorua – Geothermal adventure!
Yesterday we rolled into Matamata and went for a walk around Hobbiton! What a place, love at first sight 🙂 It was busy and crowded, but looking past that, it was just stunningly beautiful and quaint 🙂 I took far too many photos so I will try and keep it brief (there is literally a… Read More First Middle Earth experience
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