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All Over
I got up this morning and had my shower, and then, whilst Pen had hers, went hunting for breakfast; starting with another garlic, cheese, and bacon roll (thing) from Maggie Bakery over the road from the Auckland City Hotel. I … Continue reading
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Tagged auckland, farewell, farewell, New Zealand, special-effects, travel, weta-workshop-unleashed
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Podding about
19 January 2025 Why did 11.00 pm find us standing in the middle of a cemetery? Read on, to find out. Pod report: I had a good night’s sleep. So did Pen. So, whilst it’s a bit awkward outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged kaka, kea, kereru, kiwi, kiwi-park, lake-wakatipu, lorikeet, lorikeet, nature, New Zealand, parakeet, queenstown, ruru, travel, tss-earnslaw, weka
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Cocooned
18 January 2025 I got up and had a shower, and had my breakfast before Pen woke up. As the hills were clear, I toyed with the idea of getting my camera, but it was a little past sunrise. The … Continue reading
AWESOME!
15 January 2025 This morning I got up before Pen, had a shower, and packed away the clothing that had dried over the night. She got up and was getting dressed when I went down to the hotel’s guest kitchen … Continue reading
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Tagged doubtful-sound, milford-wanderer, New Zealand, realnz, sailing, south-island, te-anau, travel
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Heading north again
14 January 2025 Pen feels like she’d enjoyed a week on Stewart Island and has emerged refreshed. My watch gives a “body battery” readout, whatever that means and however it’s calculated, and I feel that if you were to graph … Continue reading
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Tagged bluff, food, mowing, New Zealand, takahe, te-anau, travel
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Farewell Stewart Island
13 January 2025 Today is our last day on Stewart Island, the furthest south Kally and I’ve ever been. (Pen and Scott have been inside the Antarctic Circle. Although I’d planned on sleeping in, (My watch says I only got … Continue reading
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Tagged bluff, bush-walking, New Zealand, stewart-island, travel
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…Birds
12/13 January 2025 I managed to get my blog up to date by about 9.50, which was when my laptop’s battery was running out, so I went back to the room and got ready. I got dressed in: And put … Continue reading
Bird Watching
11 January 2025 I got up to go to the toilet at 6.30 this morning, and thought I’d be egalitarian and use the unisex loos. The first one the last man using it had left the seat up. The second … Continue reading
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Tagged birding, birds, golden-bay, kaka, miro, miro, nature, New Zealand, rata, rimu, saddleback, tieke, titipounamu, totara, travel, tui, ulva-island, weka
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South of the South Island
10 January 2025 Can’t be late tonight as we’ve got to be on the road early tomorrow. This morning’s breakfast was porridge, made from my sachet by our hostess as they had a commercial kitchen and had to be careful … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, bluff, food, New Zealand, oban, stewart-island, travel
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Halfway throu… Penguins!
6 January 2025 Okay, now that I’m actually writing this on the 7th, I’ve got to remember what we did on the 6th… Ah, yes. It was a good evening. You may remember that we’d bought some chocolates whilst in … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, christchurch, New Zealand, oamaru, penguins, south-island, travel, whitestone-buildings
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Purupuss's Purrings 