Tag: north island
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Diving New Zealand
As we settled into our final house sit here in New Zealand we could not deny the fact that one of the top dive sites in the world was a 40 minutes drive from our house. Jacques Cousteau rated The Poor Knights as one of the top 10 dive sites in the world, who are…
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New Zealand Road Trip – Part 5
As we roll into our final month in New Zealand this country continues to amaze and impress. We completed a short house sit in Hastings before touching base with our cousins in the Bay of Plenty, and now, up into the Coromandel. One of the great things about NZ is due to it’s small size…
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New Zealand Road Trip – Part 4
We started this portion of our road trip with the intention of finally seeing the Franz Josef Glacier that we missed previously due to storms, land slides, fallen trees and closed roads. However, Cyclone Gita had other plans for us. So, as we headed off westbound across the south island we stopped in at Greymouth…
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New Zealand Road Trip – Part 1
Due to the incredible generosity of our cousins here in NZ we are going to be touring and house sitting for the next 3 months. This is the first instalment of our journey taking us from Katikati on the north island to Christchurch on the south. Once in Martinborough we completed our first of five…