We're now a couple of days down the east coast of the South Island -- at a great hostel where the polished-wooden floor hallways are so long the folks provide razor-type scooters to zip up and down -- whee!
Highlights as we came down the coast: small town called Timaru with a great Immigrant's Museum, and info about a guy who "flew" before the Wright Brothers, but his flight was so short and uncontrolled that he didn't claim the title (300 yards, landing in the brush). More body surfing! And the Moeraki boulders, which need pictures to do any justice.
Off to a tiny town tomorrow night and then a track (NZ-speak for trek) for the following 2 nights, so it'll be a few days for more, but we'll work on getting photos posted after that. xo and ;-)
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Those boulders are wild! I must have more food info. And where did you sleep on the track?
ReplyDeletepssst,...did you mean tramp when you said track? or have things changed since i've been away?
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ReplyDeleteVenitha: They had *great* lodges -- we had a private room though most people took dorm rooms -- communal kitchen and shared toilets.
ReplyDeleteJo: Maybe I got it wrong! In US-speak I think we would say both "we did a trek" and "we went trekking." The route was called Hump Ridge Track, so I used that word (as in "we did a track") -- but I'm sure the NZ verb is tramp (as in "we went tramping"). What should I have said?
yeah a tramp:)
ReplyDeletehence why it is so funny for everyone else in the world:)
hope your sandfly bites go away soon, they can be nasty!
where to apres nz?