Peter William Anderson

For the first time in a long time we haven’t been taking many pictures! It started in the Glow Worm Caves (which were amazing!!) where you were not allowed to take photos. Then we took the overlander train (9 hours) to Wellington. 2 Days in Welly was followed by an exciting ferry ride over to [...]

We only ended up spending 2 days in Rotorua, but we managed to squeeze a fair amount into them. Tuesday morning we spent on the “luge”. It was much more fun than we anticipated with Friedi fairly flying down the slope by our 5th go! Then a quick trip to look at some Kiwis (the [...]

Hot Water Beach is amazing. There are 2 underwater (hot) streams flowing beneath the beach that become uncovered 2 hours either side of low tide. Then all you need to do is search for the hot spots by digging in your feet (they change location slightly from day to day), and having found them dig [...]

After our 2 day stay in Whangarai we moved further north to the Bay of Islands. We stayed in the tiny little seaside town of Paihia where we visited the Treaty House where we brushed up on our New Zealand history. The next day we took a boat trip out to watch the dolphins and [...]

Back in Auckland today after our little trip to the inventively named Northland, which is… you guessed it, up in the north of New Zealand! For the first 2 days we stayed in Whangarai and took a day trip out to the Poor Knights Islands. There we had a couple of great snorkelling sessions, at [...]