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White water rafting in New Zealand
Wow, it really does smell up here. New Zealand is one of the most geothearmically active places in the world, especially in the North Island. It’s beautiful, but it does mean that a lot of sulphur is being released into the air, making a lot of the places around here smell pretty badly of egg. [...]
Head on to the ferg…
There are a few reasons that people head to Queestown in New Zealand. The amount of adrenaline sports is incredible. The night life is constantly buzzing (unlike many of the other towns around the country). And Ferg Burger.
There is only one town in the world you can find Ferg Burger, and there is only one [...]
Too many slopes to choose from…
There are quite a few places where you can go skiing around New Zealand, especially in the middle of winter. The main places that people decide upon are in Queenstown and Wanaka. Queenstown, of course, being the adrenaline capital of the world, is where most people roll on down to get a good ski or [...]
Climbing on ice
Franz Joseph glacier is travelling at a rate of 1 metre per year. It is one of the only glaciers in the world that is resting at only 300 feet above sea level which gives it the class of a ‘Warm Glacier’ meaning that there is a lot of running water all over it. There [...]
Hello NZ…
My last few days in Oz were a mash of busses and blurry nights. Having done so much up the East Coast, there was not much time for sitting back and relaxing. Magnetic Island sits just off the coast from Townsville, and if you find yourself in the right place I am told that you [...]
Whitehaven heaven!!
It’s becoming something that I am saying a lot, and I know there is only a limited amount of times that I can say it. I have just been to the most beautiful place on the planet (I wonder what the next one might be…)
Whitsundays is a collection of islands of Airlie Beach. They have [...]
‘ride ‘em cowboy…’
The Oz experience is a pretty good way to get you up (or down) the East Coast of Australia. It’s a hop-on-hop-off service, meaning that you can get off wherever you want and stay there for however long you want, calling them up the day before you want to leave to get on the next [...]
Duuuuude…
The night before you get your lesson, after dinner, there’s a chance for you to get to know your fellow surfers and your instructors over a camp fire, a guitar, and a box of goon. Cue some slightly inebriated camp fire sing alongs. I love my job.
5 days in Sydney…
It’s been 7 months since I was last in Sydney, and back then it was in the height of their summer. The picture that I had in my head before I set off two weeks before christmas, was of sitting on the beach on Christmas Day, nursing a barbecue and watch Santa’s surf down Bondi [...]
Am I really in Australia?
You know that image you have in your head of Australia? Yeah, you know, the one with a blazing sun, vast open spaces covered in scorched red earth and filled with kangaroos? Yeah, well it’s not like that everywhere (the country is SO vast!) and it’s certainly NOT like that in winter.
It was 1pm and [...]