Welcome dear readers! This is as good a time as any to reactivate this blog and start forming the habit of a daily entry. I'm in Vancouver Public Library central branch, which has very slow wireless access. Good prep I s'pose for New Zealand's notoriously dodgy wifi.
Looking forward to this trip very much, although ten days out (departing evening of April 4) I feel a bit underprepared. Still, we do have the first three days fairly well blocked out. First two days we'll be with friends-of-friend in Auckland - a lovely American family I met briefly at the end of my last New Zealand voyage. They travelled in on South Island earlier this year, so we look forward to their insider tips. We fly to Christchurch at noon on Easter Sunday, pick up a rental car on arrival, overnight approx. 85 km away in Akaroa. Our first night in a holiday park cabin and good chance to see how my sister Estelle likes that accommodation option.
Since I spent my entire time on North Island last trip, I'm very much looking forward to seeing the South Island. I don't even have too many memories from my first New Zealand trip (1983) as I didn't spend much time there. We were under deadline, as I recall, to get to Te Anau for a booking to hike Milford Track. (we made it, the trek was gorgeous, weather was perfect)
Today I'll sign off by thanking my friend Gary for the lovely penguin picture above, taken on the Otago Peninsula (South Island) in 2006. (original photo here)
We'll be on that peninsula fairly early in our trip and hope to see some yellow-eyed penguins too!
We'll be on that peninsula fairly early in our trip and hope to see some yellow-eyed penguins too!
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