Blogs from Gisborne, East Coast, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 2

Hi thereall-----------first time so still learning so will keep news short it raining at present and going to be the same for next 3 days and is getting cold.We have been travelling Australia for last 2 years but at present home in Gisborne.Have a happy day,Jeff... read more

A little update of what we have been up to in NZ. Stu, Simon, Steve(Simons dad) and Wayne (Sys friend from work) went on a 3 day/2night hike around Tongariro National Park (Whakapapa Village, Ski area for the North Island), they said the hike was excellant but challanging at times, poor Stus feet proved this, they were covered all over the bottom and heels of both feet, they stayed in huts which had a basic kitchen area and a long drop loo. Bonnie and I had a hard few days we had Pedicures and facials!! We have been to the local beach several times and played beach cricket, water skiing/biscuits on Kerepero Lake with Carl and Vanessa, which was good fun. Stu and I hired a car for a week and travelled the East Cape and ... read more

This is the wildest place I've ever been, except Iceland maybe. The road goes round the coast, in the middle are mountains full of nothing. There are a few scattered villages round the coast, and a few shops, but no phone reception and no internet, no petrol just beautiful beaches with pounding surf and piles of driftwood - huge trees washed down the rivers to the beach. We took the 22km long, mostly unsealed, road along right beside the sea to visit the most easterly lighthouse in the world. Because of wind during the night, the surf was spraying up across the road, and the mist was low on the hills. Such atmosphere, I'll remember that day. Here are a few pictures from the drive round the cape. We have spent today in Gisborne, a lovely ... read more

Hello Menen, Gent, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Leuven, Kaapstad, Cordoba (argentinie of toch bijna ;), Malaga, Roma, Barcelona, Innsbruck (mils),....and all the other I forgot! I wish you all a very happy New year! So..what happened after Auckland? On the 26th of december i left Auckland with the Straybus, wich was a relief again (because I hate Auckland). From there we left to Hahei. On my bus, we were only five people: two german girls, Marian from holland, Steph from USA and me.. and off course our very entertaining busdriver 'baggins'. Hahei is situated in the Cormandal region and has a really beautiful coastline with rocks shaped by the wind. We did a Sea-kayaking tour together with some people from Austria, we saw a mini-pinguin and our guide made coffee for us on the beach. At dinner, ... read more

Well, our work has been completed for our first week of wwoofing, and overall it has been a good experience. On Wednesday afternoon (just after I wrote last) a couple of other wwoofers showed up who were from Pennsylvania. They were 27 and had gotten sick of their post-college jobs - he was a business major who reviewed patents and she was a high school US History teacher - so they have now been in New Zealand for 10 months doing a lot of wwoofing and working. After they got here we headed out on Gordon's boat and did some fishing. We had 1 real fishing pole and the rest of us got plastic wheels wrapped with fishing line that we had to pull in by hand. This device worked well enough for me to catch ... read more