Reading and Roaming
IN ARROWTOWN We drove from Manapouri on Wednesday, after our overnight cruise on Doubtful Sound, to Arrowtown, which is about half an hour from Queenstown. It wasn’t a long drive, but it rained much of the way and the last 45 minutes or so were on the now familiar narrow, winding roads around the mountains. …
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DOUBTFUL SOUND To experience Doubtful Sound, you have to be willing to put up with several stages to get there. It’s located on the coast of southwest New Zealand, and you first have to get yourself to Pearl Harbor in Manapouri. Lake Manapouri is another of the very very deep (1400+ feet at its deepest) …
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SOUTH ISLAND–KAKA POINT & SOUTH On Sunday, we reluctantly left the comfort and warm hospitality at Pen-y-bryn Lodge and headed south toward Kaka Point on the coast doing some of our drive on the Southern Scenic Route which mostly skirts the coastline and is winding and often up and down as well. Our first stop …
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OUT AND ABOUT IN OAMARU We spent Saturday in a relaxed fashion catching up on blog and photo editing before heading into town. Our first stop in was the lovely and quite old (1876) Oamaru Public Gardens. Lots of mature trees, a stream, and little paths with stone steps and along stone walls leading to …
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