Queenstown, NZ We spent a few days in Queenstown and couldn’t get enough of the views of “The Remarkables” snow-capped mountain range. We had amazing views from our hotel too! One of the highlights of visiting Queenstown was visiting with Carmen and KJ (Dan and Carmen used to work together). They treated us to a [...]
Invercargill, NZ We rented (or as the locals say, “hired”) a car today and ventured out to Te Anau. It was a bit disconcerting driving on the other side of the road, but it wasn’t too bad since we were on rural roads that didn’t have much traffic. It took us a few hours to [...]
Invercargill, NZ This morning we went to church at Invercargill Central Baptist Church. The church service was nice and we enjoyed worshiping with local Kiwis. After the service we talked with some of the church members and they were kind enough to invite us to their house for lunch. We enjoyed a delicious lunch at [...]
Bluff, NZ We took a day trip down to the Bluff Oyster Festival today. It reminded us of a small town fair and we defintely didn’t feel like tourists here (since it was a very “local” event). It was a bit chilly and a little rainy, but that didn’t stop a few thousand locals from [...]
Invercargill, NZ We’ve taken several days to enjoy our next location of choice: Invercargill. Invercargill is at the southern tip of the south island and is known as the friendliest town in New Zealand. We’ve certainly found that claim to fame to be true so far. It’s not that other New Zealanders haven’t been friendly, [...]
Dunedin, NZ We checked out of our hotel in Dunedin this morning, but had several hours to kill until our bus (which turned out to be a shuttle van) left this afternoon. The hotel was kind enough to let us leave our bags with them while we explored Dunedin for the last time. We wanted [...]
Dunedin, NZ Nothing really exciting happened today (unless you call doing laundry exciting). Dan’s got a little bit of a cold — don’t worry he doesn’t have swine flu symptoms — so we decided to make today a down day. Basically we layed around, wathed movies, cooked some yummy meals, and did laundry. It was [...]
Dunedin, NZ We had two very fun excursions today that were both absolutely FREE (and you know we love free)! First, we walked to the “Dunedin Botanic Garden.” It was beautiful – absolutely worth the cost to get in . . . wait . . . it was free (but it was still very much [...]
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Dunedin, NZ We got up this morning and headed straight for the Otago Farmer’s Market located next to Dunedin’s railway station (about a 5 minute walk from where we are staying). The place was hopping! We really enjoyed walking around, seeing the different vendors, sampling several tasty products, and (who could resist) purchasing some of [...]
We were successful in uploading a short penguin video we shot with our camera onto YouTube. Watch as the penguin hops up onto the sandbank to join his pals.