Australasia & The South Pacific
Homer Tunnel and an Alpine Walk
The Homer Tunnel pierces through the Homer Saddle on the road that links Milford Sound to Te Anau and Queenstown. The tunnel is 1270m long and was once the longest gravel-surfaced tunnel in the world. Built from 1935 to 1954 and started [...]
Backpacking Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Rarotonga is the main and most populated island in the Cook Islands, at 26 miles its small enough to cycle around in a day. The island is surrounded by pretty beaches and lagoons and the interior dominated by volcanic [...]
Edora – A little Lord of the Ring Adventure
We didn’t go for any of the Lord of the Rings tours, instead, quite randomly on the way somewhere else decided to take our little rental car off on a little adventure in search of Edora from the Lord of the Rings, known as Mt. Somers to the locals.
90 Mile Beach and the Northen Dunes, New Zealand
90 mile beach is located on the western coast of the far North Island of New Zealand, 90 Mile Beach is in fact not 90 miles long, it is actually 55 miles (88 Kilometers) long. The name came from the average [...]
Old MacDonalds Farm, Able Tasman
Able Tasman is world famous for its coastal tracks that pass though rain forests, over granite cliffs and along golden sandy beaches. Located in Marahau at the southern end of Abel Tasman National Park, just 400 meters from the Park is [...]
Baby Seals near Kaikaura, New Zealand
Driving in to Kaikora from Bleinhem there’s a lookout point over a colony of seals at Ohau point. Whilst we were there a lady told us about a waterfall we’d passed just up the road where you could see baby [...]
Sheep on the road, New Zealand – Friday Photo
Sheep on the road, New Zealand, originally uploaded by benedict.adam.
Sheep!
Milford Sounds, New Zealand
Declared the eighth Wonder of the World by Rudyard Kipling Milford Sounds is New Zealand’s most famous tourist destination, and not without good reason. Probably my highlight of a trip to New Zealand, located in the Flordlands of the South [...]
New Zealand Albatross – Friday Photo
The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, with the average wingspan being 3.1 metres. We saw this Albertross whilst on a Whale watching trip in Kaikoura on the East Coast of New Zealands South Island
Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand
The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical boulders lying scattered along a stretch of Koekohe Beach between Palmeston and Hampden. They are created from the erosion of mudstone by the waves. There extremely old and look amazing in the swell of [...]
