You may have heard of the Marlborough Sounds, well the Queen Charlotte Track takes you right through the middle of them. We didn’t have a lot of time to spare here. This track may have to go on the future to do list, as we only got to explore a couple of hours worth. (A lot of people walk the 3 night 4 day walking tour.) It was a surprisingly busy track, with even the locals taking their dogs for walks. However despite this fact it was remarkably calm and…read more
Ahoy! We be pirates and our hearts be at sea. So me ‘n’ this ere scurvy scallywag dragged our keesters out t’th’ship’n’had us a grand great adventuaaarrr with all the other land lubbers aboard. Heave to Picton and sally forth I cheered.
Well I’ve never been to a windier city. Perth is bad at times, Dublin is worse and Wellington tops them both. Our first stop was Zealandia, which was an animal sanctuary that is as far from a zoo as you can get. There’s no netting to keep the birds in and the only walls were for keeping the humans out of known habitats for some of the species which were being protected in this special place. We got to see some of the native Tuatara’s and some native parrots. After…read more
