Blogs from Roxburgh, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania

Day 2 of the Clutha Gold trail is to the end of the trail which runs from Roxburgh Dam down to Lawrence. After a fairly cramped stay in our little cabin at the Millers Flat camping ground, the men drove the cars down to Lawrence to leave one and bring one back. We were wondering about the virtues of biking since it was drizzly and cold. It certainly did not look like a fine day, yet that was what was forecast. We decided to "harden up!" and get on with it. We set off from Millers Flat and once again headed off down the Clutha River on yet again a superb surface. We weren't quite sure why the track had been constructed in some places since is ran parallel to an existing secondary road with virtually ... read more

My initial plan was: do update about Hobbiton; do update about driving in NZ and post some of those funny sign-posts I photographed; do update about working at Punchbowl near Auckland, referencing to some of the adventures around Auckland. Then do updates about each day of travel of when I was doing this mad dash across the North Island to meet the ferry deadline (and why). Then my impressions of the South Island, when I was doing this slightly mad dash around it in order to get to Queenstown on time (and why). Then my experiences working in sleepy Roxburgh and neighbouring Ettrick. And of course stories about all the amazing people I've met! But somehow I keep delaying it. It doesn't help that my laptop regularly overheats when I view too many pictures (I mean ... read more