Today we took a road trip to MY beach, Cooper’s Beach. We collected rocks and looked for sea glass, but, the water was kind of cold, so, we did not swim. For lunch, we went to the world famous Mangonui fish and chips restaurant. it was delicious. we ended up taking a different path home Read More …
Today we went to the Hot Water Beach in Coromandel. Coromandel is a little peninsula that sticks off of the east coast of New Zealand. At high tide, it is the Pacific Ocean. At low tide, you can dig holes in the beach that bubble up as hot water. it is geothermally heated. Some of Read More …
Have you heard of the phrase “you can smell it from a mile away?” well if so Rotorua fits those words perfectly. Outside of the magical pure air of the car, it smells like horses and a sewer came together. Rotorua is famous for its geothermal pools. We went to see a geothermal mud pool. Read More …
we packed a lot of activities in to our 4 days in Taupo. We hiked to the Huka Falls. The Huka Falls have so much water falling that they can fill 5 Olympic sized swimming pools every minute. That is 200,000 liters of water per second. The Huka Honey Hive was awesome. They have lots Read More …
Since today is Saturday, there is a Farmer’s Market in Napier. There were so many good jams, cheeses, honeys and cupcakes that we nearly ate a whole lunch. Then, we went to visit a few wineries. When we got to Highfield, we met a really cute dog. His name was Cooper. the wineries are really Read More …
Wellington has weird and hard driving with a lot of one way streets. We are staying at the Rydges Hotel. The main highlight of Wellington was the Te Papa museum. It is the National museum of New Zealand. There are all kinds of cool things in the museum to learn about Maori culture and Read More …
Picton is a little town at the very top of the South Island. from here, you can take a ferry to the North Island. Today, we got to go on a dolphin watching trip. Today is the last time they are doing it this season. We got to see these super rare Hector’s Dolphins. To Read More …
Today, we are going to see baby seals! We had fun walking up the edge of the river. the road goes over a kind of tunnel for the seals. on one side is the Pacific Ocean, and the other side is a river. When the seal moms have kinda, they bring them up the river Read More …
2 years ago, a huge earthquake hit the center of Christchurch. We took a walk around the edges of where the earthquake hit. It brought down a lot of big buildings. Some of them are still standing, but, they are not stable, so, you can not go into them. We saw the Rydges Hotel, where Read More …
We drove from Fox Glacier to Hokitika. Our hotel was right on the beach. The highlight of Hokitika is SOCK WORLD. It is a museum/shop that sells socks. It also has New Zealand’s largest collection of vintage sock making machines. They also had a Jade World which was very cool. Have you heard of Possumerino? Read More …
