Neuseeland

Ascend of Mount Taranaki in spring with Erich

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Mount Taranaki, our aim (an active vulcano)

South Island Trip Christmas 2010

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Kea Mountain Parrot

Arthur's Pass

Wellington Harbour entrance at nightfall

New Year's Eve in the Marlborough Sounds

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Rob and Aneke, who emigrated from Holland to New Zealand some 20 years ago, kindly invited Anne, Nynke and me to their property in the Marlborough Sounds for New Year's Eve.

It took us 1/2 h to get from the gate to the house down in one of the bays, partly over a steep and narrow track through the bush. But it is fully worth it!

View from the house

"Our" beach. What else can I say?

Rob and Aneke's bays. Their property is so large that it comprises several secluded, very beautiful bays of white sand and amazing rock, in one of the most beautiful parts of the country.

Everything was prepared for the New Year's Eve party.

The water was amazing. When we surfing on New Year's Day, we saw a huge eagle ray (a bit like a sting ray) in the surf right in front of us.

View on French Pass from one of the hills.

Jolly get-together (with Anne & Nynke)

Good times! (Rob on the far left)

The house as seen from the surrounding hills

Deck at the beach

Bonfire at the beach to welcome the New Year

An amazing night at the beach

Summer Road Trip on the South Island

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East Coast Evening

Christmas Eve - Kiwi style: With BBQ at the beach

A meddlesome sea lioness in Curio Bay

Catlins view

Dolphins visiting me while I am surfing

Full waterfalls after a few days of rain

Nugget Point in exceptionally good weather

Kaikoura seals with pups

Spot the dolphins! (Sorry for the bad shots)

S'later Palmy!!

2009-11-24T22:11:00.002+13:00

So...this is it! 18 months in this wonderful country... and tomorrow morning I'm heading back to good old Europe. Phil will stay here for a bit longer and will take up the blog again. Thanks heaps guys for the most amazing farewell present ever, I hope we meet again somewhere, some time in the future. NZ rocks!

The Lost Gipsy Gallery

2009-11-19T18:23:00.004+13:00

Ok, this is one of the funniest things we've seen in New Zealand (and thanks again to the Lonely Planet guide...): The Lost Gypsy Gallery. This guy (who is a surfer, by the way) works in a bus that is filled with gadgets he's made himself out of junk and recycling items. Everything is wind or solar powered and made out of...well, anything he's been finding around!! We spent hours playing with the toys and having a look around the garden where all his best creations are on display.

Tunnel Beach

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Tunnel Beach, a new place we discovered in our recent visit to the South Island, is just two kilometres south of Dunedin. The place got its name because of a passage that was carved years ago through a rock to give access to a sheltered beach at the base of the cliffs. The walk to the beach is an easy one hour return- although there's quite a bit of a climb involved on the way back to the carpark.

The views on the way are spectacular, and once at the beach we had a lot of fun trying to climb up the huge rocks there.

Climbing up Mt. Ngauruhoe

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The team (from left to right): Rayon, Phil, Mishi, Jose & Sylvia

Con Rito y Milita en la Isla Norte

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First day in the Coromandel

After a maori performance in Whakarewarewa

Relaxing in some hot pools near Taupo

Looking for Paua...

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Getting ready for a day looking for Paua at Flat Point. (Both of us together with Jackson, Mishi and Beata)

Riversdale, awesome spot to chill out after a morning in the water

Biggest ice cream ever in Masterton, on our way home

The Paua with some garlic, ginger and a little bit of pepper...soo good!

Best spot to camp out ever!!

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trying our brand new BBQ on the beach...somewhere north of Wainui

6:30 sunrise

I'm on a boat!

2009-10-27T09:29:00.004+13:00

We went on a boat cruise around Gisborne's harbour, on one of the oldest boats in town!! It had been recently restored, and the guys in charge were a couple of old men who were very happy to show us the best spots around and tell us about the place. The weather was brilliant, so we had a very good time...couldn't see any dolphins though :-(

Gisborne

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The Cook Landing Site Historic Reserve on Gisborne's seafront marks the place where Captain James Cook first set foot on New Zealand soil in October 1769. This little guy in the picture is Nick Young, the son of the surgeon, he was the first one to see land.

Gisborne is the first city in New Zealand to see the sun every day.

My Delirium

2009-10-11T12:10:00.005+13:00

Some more kiwi music for you to enjoy. This is Ladyhawke, who grew up in a town not far from Palmy. She won six awards at the New Zealand Music Awards last week, including album and sigle of the year. I love this song, and the video is fantastic. Hope you like it!

Postcards from around the World

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To all those people who sent us postcards from every corner of the planet: THANK YOU!!
Thanks to you guys, we now have postcards from all five continents!!! Hopefully we'll get to vist all those places one day... ;-)

Massey University Student Association Awards

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Winners of the MUSA 2009 award for Outstanding Contribution of the Year

Congratulations Phil and Ed!!

Bye bye snow season!

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Sunday 20th Sept at Turoa Ski field

The Caccia Birch house

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A little bit of history here in Palmerston North: the Caccia Birch House was built in 1895 (and that means "very old" here in New Zealand) for a Scandinavian family. Several families lived there for years and it was used by the army and the university later on. It is now property of the Palmerston North City Council and it is available for use by the whole community. The best part: it's only 5 mins. away from our place :-)

MSC Beach Clean up mission

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5th September, cleaning up South Beach

Spring is here!!

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Len Lye's Wind Wand

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This is one of Len Lye's best known kinetic sculptures: the Wind Wand. It stands 45 m high on the seafront in New Plymouth, North Island. It can bend at least 20 metres, so sometimes I can be quite scary to see it sway in the wind...

Len Lye was a New Zealand born artist; he had a passion for both cinematography and kinetic sculpture and an obsession (that's what we thought) for making movement something real.
On our recent visit to Melbourne, we visited an exhibition on Lye's work at the Centre of the Moving Image. Some of his sculptures were just mind-blowing, and watching them moving, some of them at the same time, was quite an experience!
His movies were also quite a discovery for us; dancing patterns of colourful lines and prints. Here's a taste of it:

Surf Mission 23/08

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Sunset at Waiinu Beach

A Perfect Right Hander

Barefoot

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One of the things that surprised me most when I arrived here in New Zealand was seeing people going barefoot everywhere. You see them everyday at uni, in the supermarket, walking the dog in the park and even in pubs (like the one in the picture). It's like they don't remember to put their shoes on before they leave the house!

I heard a kiwi the other day saying one of the things he missed when he went overseas was walking barefoot without fearing hurting his feet. The first thing he did when he came back home was taking off his shoes and walking on the grass. I have to say it's a nice feeling, but I still don't dare going anywhere without my shoes on...and I think it has to do more with my made-in-spain mindset (what would my mother say?!) than with fearing I would hurt my feet...

8th Aug. Wharite Peak

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View of the Manawatu from Wharite Peak

A visit to the neighbours

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Here is an overall view of our recent trip to Australia. In this second visit, we spent 3 days in Melbourne and a whole week touring around Victoria (mainly along the Great Ocean Road and the Grampians NP). The weather wasn't that nice on most of the days, but we had a lovely time nonetheless and we are already looking forward to our next visit!

View August trip to Oz in a larger map

And here you can see some of the pictures of our trip:

Phil surfing Jan Juc, near Bell's Beach, on the Surf Coast.

Surf Museum, Torquay

One of the numerous cuddle-me-please koalas we saw on the way

Our wicked camper!!

Cape Otway Lightstation

The Twelve Apostles

Another astonishing view on the Great Ocean Road

A real Aussie checking us out

Melbourne on a sunny day

Oh! and next time somebody asks me where New Zealand is, I'll be careful not to say "it's that country close to Australia"...Four hours on a plane, that is more than 2,500km, is not what I would call "close", that's longer than a flight from Barcelona to Istanbul!! ;-)

Tiki Taane

2009-07-22T11:53:00.003+12:00

We'll be on holidays for the next ten days (going to Melbourne for a bit of koala spotting and so on), so we thought we should leave you here with some entertaining music made in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is Tiki Taane, a maori artist responsible for one of the most successful singles in New Zealand music, "Always on my mind":

80th Anniversary Muac

2009-07-20T17:12:00.006+12:00

The Massey University Alpine Club celebrated its 80th anniversary last Saturday. The club organised an evening of dinner and entertainment with special guest speakers and former club's members.

(Muac's current president, Jackson, giving the first speech of the night)

The Club started running in June 1929, and it only stopped organising activities during World War II. It isthe second oldest club at Massey University (for only half an hour, behind the rugby guys) and still the most popular.
Although it's named "alpine club", nowadays it focuses on many more activities such as kayaking, rock climbing, caving or slacklining. It's a great place for first years and international students to meet people and get into the outdoors of this amazing country.

(Muac members in the Tararua Ranges in 1931)

The Flight of the Conchords

2009-07-13T17:03:00.006+12:00

Here's a TV show made by kiwis that everybody should watch before coming to NZ. So funny...this guys are hilarious! Check out their accent, and their outfits (specially Bret's T-shirts). If you've never heard of them, I recommend you watch their HBO one night stand, that's a good start. These are two of our favourite videos- It's business time...

Kiwiana

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On our recent visit to Christchurch we spent a rainy afternoon at the Canterbury Museum, a highly recommendable place if you are visiting the city, with lots of information about the first Maori and European settlers, and a pretty cool interactive exhibition about the body (sometimes I wish I was 7 again...).

Well, there we came across a replica of one of New Zealand's most famous houses: Fred and Myrtle's Paua Shell House. There were lots of people in the queue to see the house, and we had no idea what the story behind this place was, so we joined them just in time for the next show to begin. So we entered this small cinema where we learnt about Fred and Myrtle's collection of paua shell and other kiwiana stuff.

Fred and Myrtle Flutey spent their whole life together in their small house in Bluff collecting paua shells from the sea, polishing them and hanging them on the living room walls. Along with the paua, they gathered and displayed all sorts of items and icons from New Zealand's pop culture and heritage (what people here call kiwiana-generally seen as kitsch, but loved by everyone). They opened their house to the public and it became one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area until their recent death some years ago.

The collection has now been brought back to life thanks to the Fluteys' family and the museum, and here you can see Phil with his cheeky smile in the living-room replica we saw:

And...yes, polishing all those shells is a lot of work!

Esterilla's attempt

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Up on the board...

and...plaff! :-(

Muac Hut Rules: Stairs-Traverse challenge

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Ester

Jackson

Phil

Erich

Another crazy weekend up at mt.Ruapehu saw the establishment of the Muac Hut Rules. Here is the first one: The Stairs Traverse Challenge!

King and Queen of Spain visit New Zealand

2009-07-01T16:59:00.005+12:00

Spain and New Zealand have been somehow connected in the past weeks, and not only because we scored 5 goals against the all whites in the confederations cup ;-), but also because the King of Spain has come here to open the Spanish Embassy in Wellington. A new agreement between the two countries will allow young spaniards to benefit from the working holiday visa scheme.

Palmerston North from the air

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Palmerston North!! The heart and soul of the Manawatu region and also the place we call home (sweet home). On this picture our house is somewhere on the top right, close to the river. Around 80,000 people live here. Of those, a significant percentage are students at Massey University who come from everywhere around the country and overseas and have made of this place one of the most important student cities in the country. We all call this place "Palmy".

In case you were wandering...yes, there is a Palmerston (south). The city was initially named Palmerston, but then the word "north" was added to differentiate it from the town of Palmerston in the south island.

The Tranzalpine

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The TranzAlpine scenic train travels between Christchurch and Greymouth. From the carriage you get fantastic views of the Canterbury Plains and the Arthur's Pass.
An open air viewing platform on the train allows you to get closer to the scenery and provides many opportunities to get good pictures.

The journey takes 4 and a half hours one way, it is 223.8 kilometres long and there are 16 tunnels, one of them being 8 kms long.

Lyttelton

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Lyttelton is a small port town next to the Banks Peninsula, and it's pretty much where the colonisation of the area started a hundred and sixty years ago. It's a nice little place to spend a sunny day, and a great spot to take pictures of the surrounding scenery.

Ed showed us around Lyttelton on our second "proper" visit to Christchurch and the Canterbury region.

Longview Hut Track

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The track is on the Eastern Ruahine Forest Park, quite steep, but only 3 hours long.
Nice for a day trip.

Snowboarding in Turoa, Mt.Ruapehu

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Not bad for a first timer, is it?

Castle Point on a stormy day

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Gustly winds, rain, hail and massive waves (5m swell) last sunday at Castle Point.

How cool is your letter-box?

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Mail-box, Letter-box...whatever, they are everywhere, even in the most remote places or in the middle of nowhere. On top of a hill, down the hill, after the tunnel, past the river...you might not see any house around, but you'll surely find one of these. Does the postman get here everyday? No idea, but sure they get mail, otherwise they wouldn't have put them there!

In the cities...well, that's a different story. Sometimes it is as if they were competing to see who's got the coolest letter-box. Some of them are miniature copies of the house they belong to, others are extravagant, funny or just very colourful, like the one on the picture. Oh God, I've just realised how boring my letterbox is! We should talk to our landlady about it...

Kiwi Winter Home Survival Kit

2009-05-22T12:12:00.005+12:00

ok, we know this is not the Antarctic (although we are not that far away) and that we hardly ever reach the 0º, but most houses here are so poorly insolated, that the temperature inside the home doesn't differ much from that outside. If we had known this before coming here, we would have added an extra pair of socks to our luggage (and we would probably have sneaked another blanket from the plane as well)... We have strong cold southerlies today, which means: it is cold. The MetService website recommends two or three layers of clothing to remain comfortable in these conditions (but, do they mean inside your home? I wonder...)

Bernd's Graduation Ceremony

2009-05-11T19:26:00.005+12:00

We attended Bernd's graduation ceremony today at The Regent theatre in Palmerston North. After being told how important their degrees are going to be in these times of crisis, the students were capped by the vice-chancellor of the university and got their diploma. After that, there was a parade with all the graduating students (and families) to the square (where else...) with the Town Crier leading the way. We had never seen the Town Crier from Palmy before: she is like an ambassador for the city and her job consits on opening festivals and leading welcoming ceremonies and parades (among other things, we guess). Here is a picture of her:

Bruno's farewell. Muac Hut

2009-05-05T22:17:00.010+12:00

We spent last weekend at the Muac Hut, below Torua skifield on Mount Ruapehu, around two hours away from Palmy. The hut can accommodate around 30 people in hut style bunks. It's got flush toilets, hot showers, kitchen, coal fire, and lighting...luxury!!

Together with other 25 people we celebrated Bruno's farewell party with a pot-luck (which included an awesome Swiss fondue), slacklining and other ready-made crazy indoor sports...

On Sunday, Phil went up to the summit of Mount Ruapehu (2,797m) together with Erich, and I joined most of the others on a day walk to lake Surprise, a 4 hours walk which is part of the Round the Mountain track.

Van Project

2009-05-04T19:23:00.015+12:00

Our art project on the van is finally finished!! Here you have some pictures of the process, which included projecting the image and drawing, sanding and painting. We are quite happy with the results; however, and contrary to what some of us thought, the flames do not make the van go faster... Anyway, we would like to thank Bruno, Alex and Jackson for their help with the project. As you can guess, our van is easily recognizable on the roads of New Zealand now...

20/04/2009 Fox Glacier

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What we learnt: Fox Glacier is the longest of the New Zealand West Coast glaciers (13km). It falls 2,600 metres, on its way from the Southern Alps to the West and it's nowadays one of the most accessible in the world. Fox Glacier is said to be moving at approximately 10 times the speed of other valley glaciers around the world.

While Paco and family were on their way to a helihike on the top part of the glacier, Phil and I did a half-day walk with the Fox Glacier Guiding company. Not a single cloud on the sky and the sun was shinning like on a summer's day. The track began through bush on the left side of the glacier, and went on for around one and a half hours until we reached the ice, put the crampons on, and actually walked on the ice. There we walked for about another hour, squeezed through ice holes and arches, and learnt a little bit more about the place. The blue colour of the ice was at some parts really bright and beautiful (unfortunately that was the day when our camera broke down, so the pics we have aren't very good). A bit expensive, but highly recommendable.

Mañolandia invade la Isla Sur

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On the way to Haast

Bikes for fun in Arrowtown 18/04

Lake Wanaka

Tasman Glacier 17/04

Mañolandia invade la Isla Norte

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Relajación mental de camino a Wellington 12/04

Castle Point 11/04

Tongariro Crossing 10/04

Wai-O-Tapu thermal valley 9/04

Rotorua

Caromandel peninsula 6-8/04

Sunrise at Porangahau Beach

2009-03-30T22:33:00.007+13:00

This year’s first Surf Camp with Massey Surf Club was on the lat weekend of March at Porangahau Beach, on the East Coast of the North Island. There were more than twenty five people (including non-surfers, like me ;-) ) BBQ, sun, nice waves and a big fire at night. The weather was awesome, especially in the morning of the second day, which is when Phil took this picture.

Surfing weekend in Castle Point

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Wellington on a summer's day

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13th March Cocktail Party

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carpet = no shoes

nice job, well done guys!

7th March 2009. Relay for Life; Hokowhitu

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In case you were wondering what is Philipp doing in this picture, well, he's representing the surf club (and Massey) in the Relay for Life, a race organised to support victims of cancer. He's wearing the head of the Massey Uni mascot...handsome, hey?

Piper, the neighbour

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North Island Road Trip

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The Team

Orakei Korako thermal park

Wishing it was ours...

Phil the caveman

Hot Water Beach-digging a hole at 5:00am; managed to avoid the tourists, but not the rain and a fast coming high tide.!! We had a really good time there...makes me smile to think about that crazy morning.

Cathedral Cove

Kayaking in Opoutere

The Zorb-Another crazy sport invented in New Zealand. This is the Zorb site in Rotorua, actually the first one in the world. We rolled straight downhill in one of these spheres half-full of warm water.

And this is Alex enjoying a second ride (her birthday present from everybody in Palmy).

Mit Wagners in Neuseeland

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Dr. Zoidberg in New Zealand

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Lord of The Rings Tour in Wellington

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Daily Life

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So many months uploading pictures on this blog and we've just realised we haven't shown any from...Hooooome

Our garden=bbq place

Palmerston North

Sunset at Himatangi beach

Taranaki

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This is Mount Taranaki (or Mount Egmont), 2,518m high, an active volcano in the West coast of the North Island. It's so much like Mount Fuji that some of the scenes for The Last Samurai were filmed here.Some scientists from Massey University believe a large eruption here is overdue (scaaary)

Waitomo Caves

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Bay of Islands

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Down the Te Paki dunes

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Christmas in Northland

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Cape Reinga

Surfing at Rarewa beach

The Kauri Forest

Raglan

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A road trip to Northland in Summer? A surf-addict is driving?...
yes, you guessed right, the first stop on our first kiwi Christmas road trip to Northland was...
Raglan.

For those of you who might not know, Raglan is the number one must-see for New Zeland surfers. If Phil was the one writing this, he would tell you about the famous breaks, the swell, the longest left hand ride in the world and why this spot is so cool... I can only tell you that the beaches we went to (with black sand, by the way) were packed with surfers of all levels who seemed to be having the best time ever!! The landscapes on the coast were beautiful, with lots of Pohutukawa trees in bloom, and the town and people looked very laid back, living in a "peace-and-love" atmosphere that I had not seen before (that's the thing with new Zealand, just when you thought you couldn't find a more relaxing place, you find yourself in towns like this... :-D). It was hard to leave, really.

Oh! and I obviously got overexcited when I saw this bar in the centre of town:

Zaragoza, in Raglan!!
sadly I couldn't find out the why, where, how and so on...I'll try to, next time.

Pohutukawa-New Zealand Christmas tree

The Manawatu Gorge Track

2008-12-16T13:03:00.004+13:00

Only 12 Km away from Palmerston North, the Manawatu Gorge track is pretty much the only easy walking track you can do around here. It takes around 2h to do and it has three viewpoints along the way that give spectacular views of the river, road, railway and nearby windfarms.

Paynes Ford_Golden Bay

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Christchurch

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Südinsel V: The Banks Peninsula

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Südinsel IV: Mount Cook and around

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Tasman Glacier

Taranaki /Mount Cook

Lake Ohau

Elephant Rocks

Südinsel III: The Southern Scenic Route

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Moeraki Boulders

More sea lions and fur seals in the Otago Peninsula

Nugget Point

Private moment for a couple of sea lions...

Curio Bay

A Sea lion at Waipapa point

Bluff

The world's fastest Indian

Colac Bay

The Waewae Bay

Südinsel II: The Fiordland

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Lake Marian

The Milford Sound

Südinsel I: Queenstown

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Kapiti Island

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Kapiti is one of New Zealand’s most famous nature reserves; it is a large island sanctuary for birds where human influence is kept to a minimum (to visit the island you need a permit issued by the Department Of Conservation and only around 50 people can go there every day).In Kapiti you can see bird species which are endemic to NZ, some of which are either very rare or absent from the mainland.

The highest point in Kapiti Island is Tuteremoana, 521 m.

And even if you don't manage to spot any of the birds in the island, the experience is worth it, even if it's just to see how the boat is driven into the sea with all visitors on board ;-)

Auckland

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Davenport

Sky Tower

View of Auckland from the boat to Rangitoto Island

Mount Ruapehu

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Wellington mit Ester

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Road trip to Coromandel and Taupo

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2 hours on the train, 26 hours flight, switching from summer to winter and missing the first time my country's football team wins the Europe Cup... Now I begin to understand what we've done is more than just "moving to another country"!
Well, here I am, and our first trip here is a Road Trip to the Coromandel Peninsula together with Bruno (Swiss), Bernd (German) and Brendan (USA). And although it was winter, I spent my first birthday in NZ lying in the sun at Cathedral Cove. Not bad...(except for the sandflies)

Hot Pools in Taupo: Taupo is a centre of volcanic and geothermal activity and hot springs suitable for bathing are everywhere around the city.

Castle Point II

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Surfen am South Beach (Wanganui)

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Castle Point

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Campen und Lagerfeuer am Meer

Meine Mitbewohner

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Ryon aus Jamaika

Gadjin aus Sri Lanka

Neal von den Fidji Inseln

Und natürlich ein Possum!

Wochenende in der Hawke's Bay

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Das McKinley Haus in Kairakau

Blick aufs Meer von der Küche aus

Mein Zimmer, mein Hut

Flo (aus Oberbayern) und Alice, unsere Gastgeberin

Strand in Kairakau

Kairakau vom Hügel aus

Wo ist die Gottesanbeterin?

Rangi Ora, das Bush-Toilettenpapier

Sonnenaufgang läd zum Baden ein

Schwarze Schäne

Nach Erfolgreichem Muscheltauchen

5 Exemplare Paua, eine essbare Riesenmuschel, die auf den Felsen in der Brandungszone wächst

Paua und viel Knoblauch!

Spezialitätenmarkt bei Hastings

"Zahme" Aale!

Possums: Zum Abschuss freigegeben

Havelock North

Massey University Campus

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Massey University

Campusallee

Campus - zentral

The Oval

Atawhai Village- Mein Zuhause

2008-02-25T08:01:00.002+13:00

Ankunft an White Island

Im Schlauchboot an den Strand

Mein Boot

Seekranke Japaner

Der Kratersee, der aufgrund chemischer Reaktionen permant die Farbe zwischen grünlich und bläulich wechselt

Kristalisierter Schwefel

Helm und Gasmaske, Pflichtausrüstung

Blubbernder Schlamm

Der Krater von innen

Schwefeldämpfe

Krater von der Seeseite

Abschied vom Tor zur Hölle

White Island, der aktivste Vulkan in NZ

2008-02-23T11:33:00.001+13:00

Und los gehts

Eine Delphinschule unterwegs zu White Island

White Island

Rotorua

2008-02-22T08:05:00.004+13:00

Hell's Gate!

Hobbiton (Matamata)

2008-02-21T08:15:00.001+13:00

Der Herr der Ringe lässt grüßen

Hobbiton nach einem 100 Jahre Rekordsommer

Viel ist nicht übrig, aber immerhin mehr als irgendwo sonst

So sah das mal hier aus

Bilbos Haus

2008-02-19T07:22:00.002+13:00

"Stillleben"

Kanufahren, Junge!

Super Sicht oder was?

Esta foto es para Sylvia. ¡El bicho es enorme!

Wald in Poutere

Coromandel Ostküste

Lara, meine Campingplatzmanagerin und erste Kiwi-Bekanntschaft

8km Strand ohne eine Menschenseele.

En proceso de colocón...

Super Sandalen, wa?

Nett, oder?

Bucht um Cathedral Cove

Mein Auto nach einer weiteren "unsealed Road" - wenn das der Dirk sieht...

Gemstone Bay bei Cathedral Cove. Super Schnorchelrevier!

Cathedral Cove

Schnorcheln, hammer!

Krasse Sicht, über und unter Wasser

Wenn das kein cooler Strand ist

Mein Boot.

Linda, mit der ich Schnorcheln war

Coromandel Peninsula

2008-02-18T07:32:00.005+13:00

Reisegepäck für 3 Jahre

2008-02-16T13:26:00.000+13:00

1 Fahrrad (braune Kiste), 1 Rucksack mit Kleidung und Schlafsack, 1 Jacke, 1 Computer: Was braucht man mehr?

Abschied in Spanien

2008-01-22T02:22:00.001+13:00

Meine Überraschungs-Abschiedsfeier in Spanien. Die Flagge im Hintergrund deutet es schon an: Themenparty Deutschland! Oder zumindest was man in Spanien für "deutsch" hält: DJ Ötzi, "Frankfurt"-Würstchen, Heineken, Bierkrüge. Super gut!