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Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [141]
The next and final stop on our New Zealand trip was to the Poor Knight islands. Yep you guessed it...another dive site...and of course another volcano, although this one is super dormant and long outside its volcanic prime. The islands are located ... Read more >
Wednesday, 3 Dec 2008 | Views [99]
Our travels on the Stray bus are now officially over...bummer :(, Although i will say that we did go out with a pretty big bang and “the American's (and a Canadian)” will most defiantly go down in the story books at the Stray company. Unfortunately ... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [95]
Not actually must to tell about this second stop in Auckland, but Gina will kill me if i don't tell this one story...Soo here you are Gina. Auckland's big tourist attraction is the sky tower, looking at it reminds me quite a bit of the ... Read more >
Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Views [84]
Taupo is actually another big stop for us that we kind of underestimated. Taupo brought two big adventure to the table. The first of which is the apex of our adventure seeking death-wish of a trip so far....Skydiving! Unfortunately, due to ... Read more >
Sunday, 30 Nov 2008 | Views [71]
Next up Rotorua, the first tourist destination in New Zealand and home to ZORBING!!! More on that later! Before we actually got to Rotorua we stopped by a little town along the way to fulfill our next adventure, white water rafting!!! Apparently, ... Read more >
Saturday, 29 Nov 2008 | Views [91] | Comments [3]
Now for some culture!!! This stop is one of the big advertising points on the Stray Bus brochure. Its referred to as their cultural stop and general good time and we were not disappointed on either account. The general point of the place ... Read more >
Friday, 28 Nov 2008 | Views [71] | Comments [1]
Ahhhh...Waitomo...one of our most anticipated stops yet! I'm sure anyone back home who knew of our trip has heard us talk about glow-worms and “black water rafting.” Well, it turns out that black water rafting is the lame equivalent of a dark ... Read more >
Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Views [133]
Our next stop in our north island journey was probably the coolest place we have been yet. The town is called Reglan and i can describe this town in one sentence...ready??? The New Zealand government pays the inhabitants of the town to surf. ... Read more >
Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008 | Views [78]
After a 4 hour ferry ride and a 14 hour bus ride to Auckland we have officially started our exploration of the north island. On first glance its pretty easy to be disheartened when you dont see an amazing view out of your window every 30 seconds, ... Read more >
Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 | Views [124] | Comments [5]
sorry guys, we have had a crazy past couple days and have had no time to do ANYTHING computer related. I got some pics up today and i'll try my best to get some stories up over the next few days. its gonna be rough as in the last 4 days we have: skydived, ... Read more >
Sunday, 23 Nov 2008 | Views [153] | Comments [6]
AHHHH! I'm starting to get my photos and my stories jumbled together!!! I suppose it was only a matter of time until i screwed it up ;). Just incase your looking a the pictures wondering what the heck is going on. The shell looking things with the ... Read more >
Saturday, 22 Nov 2008 | Views [162] | Comments [5]
Its been a few days with not a whole lot to report unfortunately; largely due to the fact that most of our trip the last few days has been a repeat of places we have already been :(. I do have a few good tidings to report though! On Tuesday we decided ... Read more >
Monday, 17 Nov 2008 | Views [164] | Comments [8]
Well...What we lost in action yesterday we defiantly made up for today! The journey started off good with a beautiful and DRY morning which gave us a view of the area we were actually in. The busy guy was right! It was beautiful (see the picture of ... Read more >
Sunday, 16 Nov 2008 | Views [109]
Yesterday may have well as been the most boring day we have had to date. We left Franz Joseph in one of their "big" rain storms. I say "big" because as we were leaving Franz Joseph it was (and had been) raining like crazy all night ... Read more >
Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [190] | Comments [5]
The pictures are FINALLY up!!!! i put about 3 hours of work into this on pay-per-minute internet, so i hope someone actually looks at all these! Post up some comments so i know there is interest ;) Today was quite cool. We are staying in a town named ... Read more >
Friday, 14 Nov 2008 | Views [201] | Comments [1]
Although we had to get up at the crack of dawn to pull it off we finally got to fly our airplanes! The company that does it its called U-Fly-Extreme and they weren't kidding. Their plane is a little open cockpit bi-wing “special” as they called ... Read more >
Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008 | Views [118] | Comments [1]
We arrived in Abel Tasman somewhat late on the 9 th and spent the night having a little BBQ with the bus. We had fun and met quite a few people most notably was an Irish guy who after telling us how in Ireland its easier to get a beer in a pub if ... Read more >
Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Views [110]
We left Kaiokura early in the morning en route to Pickton/Abel Tasman Park. Shortly outside of town the diver parked the bus on the road and told us of a short hike we should take. Just as I thought his place couldn’t surprise me anymore I was ... Read more >
Saturday, 8 Nov 2008 | Views [115]
November 8 th Yesterday we arrived in Kaiokura about noon and to no one's surprise found it to be yet another beautiful New Zealand town, with the primary difference being the addition of the ocean to the mountains. Today we decided to give “tramping” ... Read more >
Friday, 7 Nov 2008 | Views [139] | Comments [1]
As well as we though we had all of our bases covered NZ decided to throw us a little curve ball....what you might ask???.........snow. Apparently the word “summer” here is only a loose description of the actual weather! when we arrived in queenstown ... Read more >
