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Round About Ruby Bay – Nelson

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Ross

From Lake Rotoiti we headed for Nelson. Specifically to Mapua and the Mapua Leisure Park and a fitting funeral service for a former park owner and adventurer. For both of us it was a place of memories where we’d both … Continue reading →

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Beginning of the Buller – Lake Rotoiti

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Ross

Each time we have been to St Anaud/ Lake Rotoiti we have been surprised to see that that is where the Buller River starts. The Buller River is the lake outlet. So any journey from Westport to St Anaud en … Continue reading →

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Murchison in the Middle

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Ross

Up the Buller River from Westport, past Hawks Crag, past Inungahua Junction (and its Earthquake Museum), the Buller River runs past the small town of Murchison. It is small as towns go, but the biggest town for a long way … Continue reading →

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Wild West Coast

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Ross

We got a lovely wild day for leaving the West Coast. The West Coast does Wild naturally. Never mind the Wild Food Festival. The real West Coast is wild beaches. Wild surf. Wild rivers. Wild bush.

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Charmed By The Charming Creek Walkway

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Ross

We’d heard a bit about the Charming Creek Walk. We had some time to spare. The sun was shining. This was the day. We dug out our walking poles and we headed up the coast from Westport. After a stop … Continue reading →

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Sea Sand and Sorrow

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Ross

By early March we’d finished work at the Westport motels and had a couple of weeks before our next engagement. We were ready for some time-out. Starting at the North Beach of Westport. There had been big storms and big … Continue reading →

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Will the Real World Please Stand Up

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Ross

After seven special days at Totaranui, it was  time to move on. Back to the Real World – not that Totaranui wasn’t real. Quite the opposite. It is the natural world and over the hill was the wierd world that the … Continue reading →

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Totaranui – The Other Way

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Ross

A couple of days after our walk north from Totaranui we headed south. This is the direction of the main Abel Tasman Track/Walk. We’d spent a few days watching all the people coming and going. Either heading off all fresh … Continue reading →

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Joining Up The Dots – Abel Tasman National Park

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Ross

The fine February weather continued at Totaranui. Next morning was just glorious. Down the beach was the place to be at 7am. Calm and clear. Waves measured in millimetres. No early-morning swim this time – just a stroll…

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Swims at Totaranui Beach

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Ross

After our first sunny-and-windy day at Totaranui DoC camp and golden beach, it rained. It started (as foretold) later on that first day, and rained most of the second day. This was mostly good because it encouraged us to do … Continue reading →

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To the Beach – Totaranui

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Ross

Our busy time at the busy Christchurch motel came to an end. Phew! We then drove north and started a day later at a busy Blenheim motel. Then by early February we were finished for a bit and ready for … Continue reading →

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Mt Peel Revisited – In Christchurch

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Ross

Towards the end of our walk around the Christchurch CBD (see previous post) we sought out the earthquake exhibition place to see what it was about. There was a lovely stained glass church window there – or three of them … Continue reading →

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Christchurch Re-Visited

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Ross

Back in Christchurch again after Christmas; back working at the motels out near the airport. We had a chance for a few hours off one day, and headed back to the CBD. We’d done a bus tour a few weeks … Continue reading →

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South for Christmas Shortly

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Ross

Luckily we arranged for a few days off over Christmas when we took on the motel minding job at Christchurch. The job turned out to be fairly frantic, what with having to run a shuttle van to the airport and … Continue reading →

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Christchurch Visited

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Ross

Before we started work at the motels in Christchurch we thought we should finally approach the CBD area which we hadn’t seen since before the earthquakes. We’d skirted around enough times, playing Spot the Chimney and moving on. We’d been … Continue reading →

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