After a four hour drive east from Hanoi, we boarded our Vietnamese junk boat. Rich and I were embarking on a three day, two night sailing trip around Halong Bay, an area with over one thousand six hundred limestone islands jutting out of the sea, declared a world natural heritage site by UNESCO in nineteen […]
Read more "Halong Bay"Our South Island adventure finished on a high swimming with dolphins. We’d had a fantastic five weeks exploring the quiet wilderness of it but now we were excited to see what the North Island had in store for us. Following a quick pit stop in Christchurch to return our trusty hire car we flew up to […]
Read more "Aye aye captain"Our time spent on the west coast of South Island was coming to an end, only a long stretch of road and a three hundred and fifty mile road trip stood between us and our next activity, sea kayaking in Abel Tasman. We split the drive across two days with a night in Punakaiki, giving us […]
Read more "Pancakes and the Titanic"Rich and I were really looking forward to the dramatic landscape of Fiordland. Home to fourteen stunning fiords spanning one hundred and thirty five miles of coastline, Fiordland has achieved World Heritage Status. The most accessible fiord is Milford Sound and that was where Rich and I were headed. The drive into the Fiordland National Park […]
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Lambs on the loose 