We spent three nights in the community caravan park at Okarito. Lovely spot with the sea one side and the mountains the other. The Okarito lagoon covers over 3200 hectares and is on your right as you come into the village. It is the centre of a vast wetland. Time to explore the many activities … Continue reading Kotuku and Blue Mushrooms
Thursday night we spent at the Fox Glacier8 Top 10 Caravan Park. Time to get our washing done and to plug into the power and fully charge our house battery. With the lack of sun over the past few days it had got to record low levels. We have never had this problem before and … Continue reading Lake Matheson Walk
Last Friday we left our homesit at Geraldine and headed off towards the West Coast. First stop was at the A & P Showgrounds at Oamaru where we parked up for the night. In the morning we decided to head to Ranfurly where we stayed two nights at the NZMCA Park. While here we went … Continue reading And the Rain Came Thundering Down
We started a month long home sit at the end of March. It is a small farm with a variety of animals. One cat, Jimmy by name. Loves company. Had to shut bedroom door at night to keep him out. Came purring in our ears and kneeding the blankets when we were asleep. Taking the … Continue reading Home Sitting
The trip from the Tasman River Delta at the top end of Lake Pukaki to Tekapo was very windy but without incident. We remembered our last trip here and that it was also very windy, however the NZMCA Park is sheltered with many pine trees growing in and around. We spent a bit of time … Continue reading Not Friday
From Omarama to the Ohau B Canal is a short drive of less than 1/2 an hour. The Ohau B is another hydro electric dam fed from Lake Ohau and Lake Pukaki down the canal. Meridian Energy own the station and the canal that feeds it. They have opened a portion of the canal for … Continue reading Hunting
Sabrina and I met in the departure lounge. We shook hands and introduced ourselves. "Hi, I'm Sabrina, your flight instructor" She said. "Cliff," I said rather abruptly. The waiting to go up in the glider had not done my nerves any good. "Come on, lets walk out to the glider" she said. "Do you get … Continue reading Pre Flight Instructions
Thursday we left the caravan at the campsite and headed off to Lake Hawea for a look. The lake was dammed up back in the 50s raising the lake level by up to 18 metres. The level is controlled over eight metres with the outflow joining the outflow from Lake Wanaka for power generation at … Continue reading Wings
It's been a lazy week moving through the wonderful scenery of Otago. Steep mountains covered in low brown tussock and grasses. We left Glenorchy at the north end of Lake Wakatipu and travelled down to Queenstown where we filled up with diesel and emptied our black and grey water tanks in a busy petrol station. … Continue reading Central Otago
First I would like to state our horror at the terrorist murders that took place on Friday. New Zealand is a peaceful country and there is no place for such abhorrent behavior anywhere in the world. Judy and my thoughts and prayers are with those families affected. Thursday the 14th of March we left the … Continue reading Routeburn Track
