Another instalment in our Westward Ho series – this is the last one Westward Ho – Cameron Flat & Lake Hawea. We wound up our stay at Fox Glacier and hit the road again. Click on our previous blog Westward Ho – Franz Josef & Fox Glacier. Cameron Flat was our destination and as you […]
Mavora is certainly one of those places we’re happy to go back to. Revisiting Mavora gives us a ‘reset’ and a chance to completely unplug from the world. Because we’ve ‘been there done that,’ on more than one occasion when camping out at Mavora, we treated this visit as an opportunity to hone the Art […]
Like the miners in the 1800s, we were lured to St Bathans to discover gold. Well actually, the history surrounding the discovery of gold to be exact. The Creation of St Bathans St Bathans began as a boomtown known as Dunstan Creek way back in 1863. In less than a year, there were 1,000 miners […]
Thomson Gorge Road – Dunstan Mountains The day after we ‘nailed the Nevis Valley’ (click on the previous blog here), the sun was still shining so we thought we’d conquer the Thomson Gorge Road. We decided to travel the road over the Dunstan Mountains from west to east. This meant we joined Thomson Gorge […]
Nevis Valley – A remote backcountry road We Nailed It We had been hanging around Central Otago for a few weeks (see the previous blog on Alexandra), but the Nevis Valley Road was still sitting on our ‘Things to Do” list. An entire day is required for the full loop from Cromwell, through the Nevis […]
Exploring Alexandra Alexandra was only a short drive from our camping spot at Pinders Pond near Roxburgh (46km). See our previous blog. We had our eyes on finishing off the Roxburgh Gorge Cycle Trail by cycling Alexandra to Doctors Point and return. More on this later in the blog. Alexandra has a bit of a […]
Nestled beside the magnificent Mount Benger range, the small sleepy township of Roxburgh sits in the heart of the stunning Teviot Valley in Central Otago. Some of NZ’s largest and best summer fruits can be found here. They have been growing stone fruit here as early as the 1880s, starting off with a couple of […]
It was time to finish what we had started and explore the rest of The Catlins. We’ll call this blog Catlins – Part Three, which takes us to the northern end of the stretch of coastline. If you haven’t yet read my previous blogs, you can check them out here (Catlins – Part One and […]
After pressing pause on our explorations of the Catlins (see our previous blog here), Arrowtown was next on our sights. When it comes to Arrowtown for us, it’s a case of ‘never say never’! The Timing was Right for Arrowtown Now, we admit that we’re not fans of the Queenstown/Arrowtown area. It is not the […]
This is Part Two in our journey to explore The Catlins. We want to do justice to this amazing area of New Zealand. The trick is to ‘rush it slowly’ and peel back the layers. Check out our Catlins – Part One here. We departed Niagara after a two-night stay and headed towards our next […]