New Zealand
Windy Wellington
Wellington really does live up to it’s claim to fame for being the windiest city in the world. There were a few times I was afraid of being blown right off my feet while crossing the street! It’s hard to believe we spent three weeks here. The time really flew …
Street Art Tourist
I gave fair warning in the last post that street art would be coming. We walked around Dunedin specifically looking for it, but I did manage to take some pictures of interesting buildings too. This train station is one of the most photographed in New Zealand. The steepest residential street …
Big mountains, big birds and little dolphins
Day six we left Weetbix to rest at the campsite in Te Anau for the day while we let someone else do the driving and commentary on a tour to Milford Sound. We went expecting the weather might not cooperate as it is considered one of the wettest inhabited places …
A red rocket named Weetbix
We flew into Christchurch and picked up our Spaceships campervan. She was to be our wheels, meals and bed for 10 days of touring and she made it through it all without too much complaining. We did a counterclockwise tour of the South Island, obviously missing large portions of it …
More pictures from north of Auckland
Now that we are off the road, I am able to upload some more from the North Island portion before sharing the South Island journey. Random roadside stops From Paihia, we took a passenger ferry over to Russell, the town once known as “the hell hole of the Pacific” …