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Dunedin – Sealife Central

Thursday, 22nd March 2012

A visit to Dunedin always comes with interesting seabirds...

We’re in New Zealand…

Thursday, 22nd March 2012

Rachel wasn't entirely welcomed by the locals!

Rachel gets a warm welcome from a red deer!

Kapiti Island

Tuesday, 8th April 2008

Kapiti Island, 5km off the coast just north of Wellington has been a nature reserve since the 1950's, and has been free of all introduced mammals since the last possums were eradicated in 1996...

The best one-day walk in the world?

Monday, 7th April 2008

The Tongariro Crossing was billed by Lonely Planet as the best one-day walk in the world a few years ago. We'd always planned to include it in our itinerary...

Caving in Waitomo, NZ

Tuesday, 1st April 2008

The beautiful scenery was all getting too much, our eyes were sore, so we decided that a caving trip was due...

Holdsworth

Friday, 28th March 2008

Friday morning we headed North to Holdsworth, a pretty river valley that is one of the entrances to the Tararua Forest Park...

It would be a Munro if it was

Friday, 28th March 2008

Kapakapanui is the closest big hill (1102m) to Richard's parents house, and there's a loop track to the top, so despite the fact that it's very steep in either direction, we decided it would make a good first walk...