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Bay of Islands – the End
This is our last post so to speak of our trip to New Zealand. We went over to Russel Thursday. It’s either a long drive or a short ferry ride so we took the ferry. We wandered around, stopped at the Russel Museum and then ate lunch at the Duke of Marlborough Hotel. Next to…
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Bay of Islands – Day 2
The afternoon of the storm was very wet and windy but by the evening the sun was out so we took a walk along the waterfront over to the Waitangi treaty grounds which is where the Europeans signed the treaty with the Maori in 1840. We could have walked further – along a path within…
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Time Lapse
Although the time-lapse shows up on the web site, it apparently does not show up in the email that goes out so here is the link: TIME-LAPSE.
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Down Day
We flew to Auckland and rented a car to go to Bay of Islands (about a 3 1/2 hour drive). I was using Google Maps on my phone for directions except that I forgot to take it off airplane mode so we got a bit lost at the beginning. Once we got that sorted out…
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Sidelights
Under the category of signs we don’t normally see in Canada (but maybe should in some neighbourhoods). We also ran into someone herding cattle along the highway. The herder (cowpoke or whatever) was using a dirt bike – clearly with little difficulty because he had enough time to motor over to an apple tree and…
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Nelson Area
Our accommodations in the Nelson area was originally a stable from the 1800’s made with cob material (straw and clay). The present walls are still the same as they were in the original building but with a very modern interior. The owners are recent immigrants from the Netherlands who decided that the climate in New…
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