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New Zealand Route/Crazed Bumblebee “Does” NZ

February 2, 2009 timminter Leave a comment

This was us in NZ. One months worth of serious bumblebee action. More stuff about some places and things soon hopefully, if I don’t collapse

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Bleedin heck! Just remembered.. forgot about whale and dolphin watching in that earlier post. Doh.

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Everytrail came through

February 2, 2009 timminter Leave a comment

OK, latest report on the trip so far (right up to today I might add!!)

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Click the image for more info and to zoom about etc.

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97,000 miles and counting!

February 2, 2009 timminter Leave a comment

Cant quite believe it! According to the little GPS thingy here I’m almost at the 100,000 mile mark. 5 months in and considering all the time I’ve forgotten to turn it on or take it out that’s not bad! Looks like everytrail.com might just have reached its limit though. Just tried to upload the latest info and got a big fat black page. Hmmmm :-(

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New Zealand

February 2, 2009 timminter Leave a comment

It’s hard to blog from the wilderness you know! That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. So there. And it’s even harder to do it while strung up off a bridge or being flung out of a perfectly good airplane. (Better not talk to loud… so far managed not to be flung from anything, only down things and over things and around things.. oh yeh, and under things). One things for sure, we’ve not been bored in New Zealand. So far we’ve managed to…

  • Canoe 90km in 3 days
  • Zorb
  • Black Water Raft
  • Ride a Segway
  • See a real Kiwi
  • See a cave full of glow worms
  • Hike (or “tramp” as they say here) countless mountains
  • Spend the day on a yach
  • Ride the worlds longest flying fox
  • Quad bike around the countryside
  • Drive over 4000km!
  • …..blah blah blah! Much more I’m sure, can’t even remember!

Now for the second time so far we’re in prison. The Jail House backpackers in Christchurch. Pretty cool really, all the old prison stuff is still here. We look out on the outside world through bars and the key that opens our door is one that used to open the same door for some dangerous rustler or moonshine maniac no doubt.

No pics for a while I know too. Something about having over 50Gb worth and 7,000 to sort through really hasn’t appealed so far! Soon!

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Progress to 26th Dec 2008

January 26, 2009 timminter 2 comments

OK, being a bit slack I know but this is what our little route looks like up until 26th Dec.

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Still getting the hang of this GPS route malarkey, one day I’ll get the hang of it! Click the image above for more info from http://everytrail.com (the only website I’ve found that can handle all this!)

Categories: New Zealand