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.......


Monday, 3 March 2014

Key Summit

Late on Tuesday afternoon, after we'd returned from Doubtful Sound, we drove down the Milford Sound Road and walked up a well-marked track to a point known as Key Summit. The first part of our walk took us along the beginning of another Great Walk - the Routeburn Track - but we soon parted company with it.
We passed a number of people coming down the track but by the time we reached the place that was obviously intended to be the end of the walk there were only a handful of us there. Amongst the others admiring the view were a couple from San Francisco; Linda (environmental lawyer for a non-profit making organisation, in NZ for a conference, she said) and Wayne (real estate manager for a tech company). Do you think there might be some conflict of principles between those two from time to time?

After we had finished chatting to Linda and Wayne,  Lawson pointed out that we were still some distance from the highest ground around, and since we can never resist climbing the next hill or going around the next corner, we continued climbing until we were satisfied that we'd seen the best view to be had from there.

Is that Bill Oddy? Or David Bellamy? And
who is that weird woman?


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