Wednesday, 15 October 2025 Today we did a full day tour to Doubtful Sound. We left Te Anau just after 9.00am for the drive down to Pearl Harbour, situated just inside the mouth of the Waiau River which flows from Lake Manapouri. The weather was cold and miserable this morning so I put my waterproof […]
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 The IT Guy cracked it last night … with himself. Phew, for once it had nothing to do with one of my devices or my ineptitude with technology. Trying to be organised for some upcoming excursions, he tried to transfer the confirmation email back to the inbox to make them easy
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Monday, 13 October 2025 After our very late night last night, we slept in this morning. When we woke up around 8.00am, it was to the sound of rain bucketing down. Hmmn, no need to rush to get out and about then. After a leisurely breakfast we made our way down to the Rakiura Museum,
Sunday, 12 October 2025 I downed a ‘Sea Legs’ tab with breakfast this morning, just to be on the safe side. From our hotel room I couldn’t really tell how windy it was, but decided that it wouldn’t hurt to be prepared for the worst. We reconciled some of our luggage last night, deciding that
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Saturday, 11 October 2025 Waterfall, waterfall, waterfall, waterfall, the southernmost point of the South Island, a lighthouse and a motor museum. Maybe a bit more detail … We set out on the Papatowai Highway heading for McLean Falls but, when we happened upon the Matai and Horseshoe Falls not far from Owaka, we decided that
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Friday, 10 October 2025 Yesterday’s albatross experience came with an albatross guarantee. Because we did not get to see an albatross in flight we received an email inviting us to try again at another time, free of charge. Because we are such birdy nerdies we decided that we had time to drive out to the
Thursday, 9 October 2025 Aaahh! Our first two night stay, so we didn’t have to pack up the car this morning before heading out for today’s activities on the Otago Peninsula. We headed south around the harbour on Portsmouth Drive, before taking Portobello Road over the bridge separating Andersons Bay Inlet from the harbour. We
Wednesday, 8 October 2025 We were up early again this morning but not quite as early as the last two days. After a quick breakfast, we had the car re-packed before 8.00am and drove out to Katiki Point to see the lighthouse and look for the yellow-eyed penguins. The lighthouse was accessible BUT fenced off,
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Tuesday, 6 October 2025 I woke this morning before the alarm. Time is a bit confusing at the moment because now our body clocks have been displaced by another two hours with changing to NZ Daylight Savings Time. Anyhow, the clock on my iPhone said it was just after 7.00am so that must be right
Monday, 5 October 2025 This morning we set off on our fourth holiday for the year and our third to an overseas destination. This time just ‘across the ditch’ to New Zealand’s South Island. It was an early start with the alarm set for 4.45am. Blagh! The alarm duly sounded and I crawled out of
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