Welcome home! Welcome home you two world travelers! What a wonderful catalogue of great places and beautiful sights! Glad you're home safe and sound. Thanks for sharing this with your friends--very inspiring! If you choose to host a slide show with all the anecdotal stories--please count me in!
Cheers,
Kim
Memories of a life time I am so enjoying your travelblog. And the writing just gets better and better! The pictures make me want to close up shop and move there. I can't believe that these 9 weeks have flown by. I am sure even more so for you. I look forward to seeing you both.
Eileen
Wild Wild Life! I am so envious of you two. As a birder in training, I am so pleased you two paddled looking for great birds!
Take care--we'll keep working our boring daily grind here... :-))))
Victuals Ed and Luisa: There is really not much to talk about except for the excellent wines, particularly white and pinot noirs. Otherwise, they are still trying to move beyond their British roots. There are some excellent restaurants but we are doing most of our own cooking so don't have much to say.
Amazing! Hello Bill and Carol--thanks for the latest update--what gorgeous country! I'm am so envious of your birding luck! How wonderful! You really need an audio feed so we can take in the bird songs!
Cheers--wishing you well and wellness! :-)
Ted's Comment That picture of the dolphins is great! You guys took that? Good shot!
Looks like you guys are having fun, and boy, really going with the travel log thing. I didn't read all the text, I confess. It makes me happy to see you guys having so much fun.
Habitat build Your blog is enticing! I wonder if Habitat builds in New Zealand. Maybe I should go there in 2009. My grandmother Jessie Bewley Parker (my full maiden name) was born in New Zealand, and the house she was born in still stands there, easily recognizable from a painting done in the 1800's. My cousin visited it about three years ago.
Loving your blog! I'm loving your blog! Just now catching it, since I returned from Honduras last night. Carol, someone commented about how well you write. I agree! Give me lessons!
Kim's comment re Diving Trips As a local I would recommend a quick trip out to the Poor Knights Islands for diving. The islands themselves are a predator free sanctuary for native fauna and off limits but the sea caves and underwater arches surrounding them are teeming with protected sealife and the diving in this area is spectacular. Get there from Tutukaka Marina half an hour coastwards from Whangarei.
WOW! Hi Bill, Carol--looks like you're having a wonderful time! Please inquire about diving--I may want to go there in the next couple of years! Bill--I met a very nice man from New Zealand on the bus the other day. If he's any indication of their kind, you're in friendly territory. Cheers--see you when you return. -Kim :-)
Aha "though Bill is usually the driver and has made this transition quite smoothly (says Carol)" - let me just say that mom is the best disciplined person with a crazy driver I've ever seen. I know because she taught me how to drive. So i believe that driving is truly an extreme sport for you there, and it must be exciting!
So sad that you lost the second blog entry. It's risky to compose stuff for long periods online - sessions time out, connections get lost, etc. Without a laptop though the only way to avoid that it to compose in a word processor or save it on the computer or a usb memory stick and and then connect, paste the text and upload photos, updating the blog without being connected long. Maybe they won't charge you for the time your not actually on the internet, if you just want to write the blog - but do they have Microsoft Word? Notepad could be an option - it's on all windows machines under applications - but I'd try it first with a short blog because sometimes when you cut and paste from notepad you have to do some text reformmating.
It's no small task what you are doing. The blog website your using looks good, (good job matt) the photos look good, the writing's excellent and I can even leave comments!
Good on ya!
Kim Becklund
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Welcome home you two world travelers! What a wonderful catalogue of great places and beautiful sights! Glad you're home safe and sound. Thanks for sharing this with your friends--very inspiring! If you choose to host a slide show with all the anecdotal stories--please count me in! Cheers, Kim