We have spent the past six weeks in New Zealand, five of them in a Spaceship named Button. We have managed to explore both the North and South Islands and our activities have included ‘tramping’, glacial hiking, skydiving, jet boating, zorbing and alpine hiking. A full blog post details our exploits will follow in the coming days (once I have written it!). I have managed to sort out some of the photos from our trip and they are available on http://photos.andywicks.com
The photos below give an illustration of where we have been and what we have been up to.
Waitomo Glowworm Caves
http://photos.andywicks.com/Waitomo
Watching sunset at Paekakeriki
http://photos.andywicks.com/Paekakeriki
Going for a walk in Picton
http://photos.andywicks.com/PictonAndSnoutShead
Getting a water taxi to walk along the Abel Tasman coastal track
http://photos.andywicks.com/AbelTasmanCoastalWalkway
Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki
http://photos.andywicks.com/PunakaikiAndHokitika
Hiking on the Franz Josef Glacier
http://photos.andywicks.com/FranzJosefGlacier
Skydiving over Queenstown
http://photos.andywicks.com/Queenstown
Exploring Milford Sound
http://photos.andywicks.com/TeAnauAndMilfordSound
Walking at the foot of Aoraki Mount Cook
http://photos.andywicks.com/AorakiMountCook
Whale and Dolphin watching at Kaikoura
http://photos.andywicks.com/Kaikoura
Crossing the Cook Strait
http://photos.andywicks.com/InterislanderFerry
Doing the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
http://photos.andywicks.com/TongariroAlpineCrossing
Watching the Aratiatia Rapids fill up
http://photos.andywicks.com/HukaFallsAndAratiatiaRapids
Watching the geysers at Whakarewarewa
http://photos.andywicks.com/WhakarewarewaThermalVillage
Enjoying having New Chums Beach to ourselves on the Coromandel Peninsula
http://photos.andywicks.com/CoromandelPeninsula
Enjoying 90 Mile Beach