Yesterday, we drove to Kaikoura. Just when we thought we’d seen everything the landscape could show us, we ran into these brown hills. We also rode past coast that was brilliant ice blue due to rocks just underneath the water near the shore. Then in Kaikoura, we saw a...
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Marlborough Country
Well the rain ended in Paroa and we drove up the coast , stopping for pancakes at Pancake Rocks in a town that sounds like pancake: Punakaiki. I had heard or thought they would be round stones stacked atop each other, but they were layers of rock crumbling so...
Continue reading...We’re OK
Perhaps you heard of the volcano eruption in New Zealand. We’re safe. That was on an island off of New Zealand’s North Island, and we are now touring the South Island.
Continue reading...Plan C
Fortunately, we had the opportunity to plan a trip in New Zealand including going from Queenstown to Haast on the west coast’s only road (6) and stopping the next night at Franz Josef Glacier north of Haast. Unfortunately, the road west from Queenstown to Haast was closed the day...
Continue reading...Remarkables
The Remarkables are a nearby mountain range, and everything we’ve seen so far has been remarkable. We thought the North Island was extraordinarily beautiful but the South Island even more stunning from our first view from the airport. But I will let the views make their own remarks. This...
Continue reading...No Internet and On The Go
Hi, everyone. Just a quick post to let you know we are staying at a place with no cellular coverage. We ducked into Hamilton, NZ to use it at café. Tomorrow, we drive back to Auckland and the next day fly to the South Island. Wait, all this beauty...
Continue reading...A Good Day
We drove from Wellington to New Plymouth yesterday. This is the view out our hotel room’s back window. And this is out the front: Mount Taranaki. Here’s a better view from the drive in: . Tomorrow we are going partway up it to a garden. Today, we walked seven...
Continue reading...Windy Welly
Well we’re in windy Welly. Wellington is the windiest city in the world and the southernmost capital. We spent the previous two days in Napier by Hawke’s Bay. We hiked up to a Maori Pa (fortress city), visited a water spa, and toured the Art Deco buildings downtown ....
Continue reading...Bucket List
Mary always wanted to go ziplining. And we did first day out of Auckland. Oh, I went, too. But Mary was having the most fun, so the guide took more photos of her. Then the next day we had the pleasure of walking out to Cathedral Cove. Some items...
Continue reading...Places We Have Been
We’re almost done gearing up in Auckland for our one-month car tour around New Zealand’s North Island. See a reminder of the kind of beauty we’ve already seen so far at https://hopperguy.com/PhotosandFilms/?p=159. Hover your cursor over a photo to get a description: date, place, and subject. Click on one...
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