ABOUT US



ABOUT US
We are from Cornwall, England.
We love to travel and to explore places in a campervan. We find wide open spaces exhilarating
and do lots of walking. Show us an accessible hill or mountain and we want to go up it.
We like watching birds but are not twitchers. To be honest Lawson is more into bird spotting than me but what I find amazing
is the diversity of birdlife, and the fact birds of all sizes continue to live side by side with us humans. So, in the course of our explorations
we may make a detour to the local dump because more often than not it will be one of the best places to see birds.
We are sure New Zealand will not disappoint us when it comes to birds but what about other wildlife and natural wonders?
Will we encounter anything to beat the sight of polar bears on sea ice at the North Pole?
And what will we think of the house at Paraparaumu that Ron and Vivien have built? All will be revealed.......

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Dizzy heights

The Red Crater on the Tongariro crossing will be the highest point we reached during our NZ trip. The details of our best 'climbs'  are as follows:-

Saddle above Shearwater Lodge (in the Kaikoura seaward range) about 1524 metres/ 5,000 feet.
Key Summit (off the road to Milford Sound) 1090metres/3576 feet
Gertrude's Saddle (also off the Milford Road) 1406 metres/4612 feet
Rob Roy Glacier walk (Mt. Aspiring National Park) high point unknown
Red Crater (Tongariro Crossing) 1878 metres/6161 feet
The Pinnacles ( on 22 March in Kauaeranga Valley, Coromandel Forest) 759metres/2490 feet
Wainora/Booms Flat circuit high point (on 23 March in Kauaeranga Valley) 549 metres/1801 feet

N.B.And we also did a fly past of Mount Aspiring, of course, the peak of which is 3033 metres/9950 feet.
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