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.......

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Some other lovely places

So on Thursday 6 March it was time to say goodbye to South Island but, before we take the ferry out of Picton, here are just a few of the other places we saw while we were there.

1. Fur Seals & seaweed at Shag Point, north of Dunedin.

2. Rushing water at Parakanui Falls, near Balclutha.
3. Rock formations at Tunnel Beach, just south of Dunedin.



4. Lighthouse, seaweed 'creatures' & rare yellow-eyed penguins at Nugget Point, the Catlins.


5. Walking through pioneering railway tunnel in the Catlins.

6. Standing on volcanos, The Pyramids, Okia Reserve, Otago.


7. Memories of home. Clifden Suspension Bridge, near Manapouri.



8. Cromwell, former gold rush town turned to fruit growing, on road to Manapouri.







9. Rocks threaded with trees in the Chasm, Milford Sound.

10. Reminder of past glories. Diamond Lake, near Wanaka.

 














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