Rocks on Tour

29/06/2019

I love that this rock hunting "craze" is still going strong! Our family has been doing it for a long time now and my kids still love it 😊 it's like a treasure hunt for the whole family 😃

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/06/rock-hunt-craze-getting-thousands-of-children-out-in-canterbury.html

It's cheap, simple and some exercise is involved.

13/06/2019

Rocking out in Rarotonga 🏝

13/06/2019

Kia Orana from the beautiful Cook Islands 🛩🏝

Isn't this just the perfect painted rock to be doing a fly over of Aitutaki Lagoon from the plane?!

08/06/2019

We have some new traveling rocks to introduce you to and they were lucky enough to spend some time exploring at their first destination, Christchurch, NZ

Thanks once again to Air New Zealand for taking these rocks traveling 😄 we can't wait to see all of the places they end up!

05/06/2019

San Francisco! Who else has always wanted to go here?!

Reposted from - The 3 musketeers set off on their last trip that they will have in my suit case for some time, to San Francisco!! They saw the Grace Cathedral on Nob hill and the famous tram pass by but were too cheap to get on it! Or maybe just wanted some exercise after another long flight! They have really maximised the northern routes recently and i will miss taking them around with me, even when i look like a weirdo sometimes taking their photo in public!
#777 @ San Francisco, California

01/06/2019

This posts a little bit different because this time it was one of our family (Struggles and Strength) who was able to take one of our rocks traveling 😃 My husband went to China a few weeks ago on a business trip so the kids and I sent one of our rocks traveling with him and had fun taking in the sights through the photos that he shared with us while he was over there.

Has anyone else taken some of their rocks traveling with them or with family and friends? I'd love to hear about the places that your rocks have found themselves 😃

25/05/2019

Reposted from - Hola! The 3 musketeers made it to South America; photo one is Puerto Madero, a modern part of the city lined with nice cafes and restaurants and the famous bridge you can see represents a couple doing the tango! Photo two is the very famous Casa Rosada (Pink House) in Plaza de Mayo, (read below for history) and photo three is the Torre Monumental.

Plaza de mayo ; is a city square and main foundational site of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was formed in 1884 after the demolition of the Recova building, unifying the city's Plaza Mayor and Plaza de Armas, by that time known as Plaza de la Victoria and Plaza 25 de Mayo respectively.

Casa Rosada; The Pink House, houses the presendential Office. The building also houses a museum, which contains objects relating to former presidents of Argentina. It has been declared a National Historic Monument of Argentina.

Torre Monumental; the clock tower was given to the city by its British Community in 1916, to commemorate independence.

@ Buenos Aires, Argentina

20/05/2019

These rocks have just been to San Antonio, Texas! And check out the caption below for a hint as to where they are heading next 😃

Reposted from - Here you see the 3 musketeers chilling by the river walk in San Antonio, Texas just the day after they were in Houston. These guys don't sit still for long! Now they are already resting at home after a 14.07hr flight, getting some sleep before they take flight for South America!

Photo credit - @ San Antonio, Texas

18/05/2019

What beautiful weather for venturing around the Windy Capital, Wellington, NZ 🌬

@ Wellington, New Zealand

15/05/2019

Just casually taking in a baseball game in Houston, Texas!How awesome is that!!

Reposted from - This time the 3 musketeers travelled 13hours to Houston, they went to see the play baseball at the and down town to the , the birthplace of George H Hermann (1843-1914), an American entrepreneur based in Houston who invested in real estate and was an early investor in oilfields.


- @ Houston, Texas

07/05/2019

Heading off on another adventure thanks to and Air New Zealand

Any guesses as to where this rock and it's buddies might be headed?

04/05/2019

Some of our rocks got together this week and had a mini reunion across the ditch in Sydney! Looks like fun to me :)

30/04/2019

As the weather is starting to get colder (and wetter!) down here in New Zealand this destination on the 3 Musketeers trip has definitely got me wishing I was there too!! Who agrees?!

Reposted from - The 3 musketeers washed up on Hawaii today while on enjoying the warm waters in Honolulu, steering at the famous Diamond head; this is an enormous crater that you can hike up and around for incredible views. On hot days like this, surfing at Waikiki is a much cooler option!
- @ Honolulu, Hawaii

26/04/2019

Some of our rocks have touched down in the USA and are getting themselves acquainted with some iconic American spots 🍌🍎🍊

Reposted from - The 3 musketeers from went for a wonder in the iconic Trader Joes supermarket in Los Angeles. Normally these little guys are hid and found in and around nz towns but this time they're hiding in the colourful shelves- see if you can spot them!
Trader Joes is lovely little supermarket spread across the United States of America. Its renowned for fresh high quality produce, organics, friendly welcoming staff and lots of little goodies all around the store! -

@ Los Angeles, California

22/04/2019

Another day exploring a new corner of the world This time Sidney has taken these rocks to visit Narita, Japa! Here the rocks are in the Shinsoji Buddhist Temple founded in 940 which is also known as the Great Pagoda of Peace.

21/04/2019

I'm loving being able to and visit so many places in Australia 🌏 And it looks like these rocks spent a beautiful day in Brisbane, Australia 🌞

21/04/2019

These rocks are lucky enough to be hitting the beach in Avalon, NSW, Australia 👙⛱🌊🏄🏊

Reposted from - Always swim 🏊🏼‍♀️ between the flags 🚩
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19/04/2019

These 3 lucky rocks have been spending Easter weekend in Middle Earth. More specifically in the magical Rivendell, home of the Elves, from the famous Lord of the Rings movies.

Thanks so much for sharing this with us Sidney 😊

14/04/2019

Love this shot! Thanks for sharing it with us
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Reposted from - - Kia Ora! Smith Family all the way from Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦! -

13/04/2019

And the first destination for these rocks is Taipei!

Here they are checking out some of the local sights such as the Taipei 101 Tower.

Sidney Collier is part of the Air NZ team and he is the one who is taking these 3 rocks traveling over the next 3 months. Here is what he had to say,

"I have been gifted these precious Taonga from a beautiful family to share on my global adventures. I feel privileged to have this responsibility and promise to keep them safe. May our journeys, pictures and experiences continue to inspire. Sharing our New Zealand with the world."

13/04/2019

13/04/2019

Here is a new trio of traveling rocks on route to an exciting destination with the AirNZ 787 Dreamliner crew!

Any guesses as to where these rocks are going??

11/04/2019

Well those rocks that were up in the air have landed safely in Perth 🙌 Has anyone else been there? I haven't yet so I'm definitely

Reposted from - These are some precious rocks that I have been entrusted with to take on my travels.
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10/04/2019

How cool is this shot of our third group of Traveling Rocks up in the air ✈ Thanks to
for sharing this shot with us of these rocks flying high at 41,000ft somewhere over Adelaide 😃

09/04/2019

And here they are... our 2nd group of 😃 Thanks to for taking these 3 Musketeers traveling and sharing their first stop in Vancouver, Canada 🌎



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originated in Whangarei, people from all over town painting rocks & hiding them for local children to find! Its a community wide scavenger hunt and its spreading around the country! Now the airnz sponsorship team & founder are taking nz rocks worldwide!! How does it work? When you find a rock, you take a photo & post it on their social media page so the person who hid the rock can see, then you rehide the rock for the next person to find!! So what am i doing with these rocks?

Its my privilege to be travelling with these 3 in my suitcase around the world for the next 3 months. They were intricately painted by the Powell family & the Smith family from Auckland, and they will be vicariously following them around the world!

I'll be proudly representing Longhaul cabincrew, taking them to all 777 destinations!! Join the trip @ , also check out the hash tags & the Whangarei rocks page for more incredible rocks!

Where are the 3 Musketeers chilling today?(nickname during project).This sculpture the Olympic Cauldron was built for the 2010 Olympic Games and is lit for special events. Much like the rocks, this statue represents much more than just a flame; read more below to find out.

#777 🤓🤓 Following the longest national torch relay in Olympic history, the Olympic Cauldron was lit on Feb 12, 2010 marking the official opening of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Parelympic Winter Games.
Arriving from Athens, Greece, the Olympic Flame was proudly carried by 12,000 torchbearers on a 45,000 km journey across the country, embracing Canadians in over 1000 communities along the way in the excitement of the opening of the games.

09/04/2019

There have been rock sightings popping up from all over the world so be prepared for an onslaught of updates and photos 😄

02/04/2019

It's here! The next stop on these 3 rocks travels is Osaka, Japan! How gorgeous are those cherry blossoms 😍 and how lucky are those rocks getting to travel there 😃

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I was lucky enough to get the last Osaka flight of the season and it just so happened to be Hanami ( Cherry Blossom Viewing) time !! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

29/03/2019

So excited to share the very first stop for these 3 awesome rocks! Singapore!!

Thanks to
for taking our rocks traveling with you on your adventures as a Flight Attendant with 😄

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I was asked to be part of this awesome initiative which started in Whangarei. A community wide scavenger hunt where these rocks are hidden somewhere.. this in turn encourages the kids to get outdoors and in the fresh air to find them! The idea is that you hunt for the rocks, when you find them you take a photo and post it on their social media page so the person who hid the rock can see, then you rehide the rock somewhere else for the next person to find. It has become quite the craze. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I was gifted these three beauties to take care of for the next 3months for The Kelly Family & The Hunters! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I will take them on adventures with me all over the world sharing fun facts, stories etc about the places these rocks get to visit - so join me, share the journey and follow the hashtag to see where all the other rocks get to over the three months!
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Fun Fact : There are 18 Supertrees at Gardens By the Bay measuring between 25 and 50 metres tall , and Over 158,000 plants comprising more than 700 species and varieties of bromeliads, orchids, ferns and tropical flowering climbers have been planted on the 18 Supertrees.
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28/03/2019

Hi 🖐 I'm Serena from Struggles and Strength and these are my 3 awesome boys (there's also a baby bump hiding in there somewhere 🙉 and my husband Kaleb was busy working when I took this selfie which is why he is nowhere to be seen 🙈). We live in rural Whangarei, New Zealand and love to get out and explore wherever we may be 😊

The project is something that I have been working on behind the scenes for a long time now and I'm so excited for it to be launching this week 🛫

This awesome project came about because of my kids love for painting, hiding and finding (or rock hunting as we call it) rocks in our local community. As weird as that may sound I promise you it is a legitimate family pastime 😂 We hide rocks in our local parks, playgrounds, beaches, etc. for others to find and in turn we go rock hunting to see what awesome painted rocks we can find before we re-hide them for the next person. It's like this awesome treasure hunt that gets you out and about, exploring new places in your hometown and around the country (people actually do this all over the world 🌏)!

Well, about a year and half ago when we couldn't afford to go and visit my brother and his wife and their new baby (who live on the other side of the world from us in The Netherlands!) we decided that it would be fun to paint some rocks and send them overseas to be hidden in other countries for people to find. We hoped that the people that found our rocks would contact us (using the details I had written on the back of the rocks) to share photos of where they had found them and then where they had hidden them next. Unfortunately, we never heard anything and my boys were so disappointed 🙁 And that's when my idea was born 🤔

I wanted to find a way that we could send our rocks traveling and be guaranteed that our rocks would get to travel all over the world and that we would be able to follow for the whole journey to see all of the different places that our rocks went. So I contacted the team at Air New Zealand to see if they might be able to help us out and I was blown away when they came back to me to say that they would be happy to take our rocks traveling 😄

And so the project was born!

Now I know that there are a lot of families, adults and children out there that also love joining in on the rock painting/hiding/finding craze so Air New Zealand and I really wanted to be able to share this project so that everyone could join in and follow along as our rocks travel around the world. In fact we even asked other people and families from around NZ to contribute some of their own rocks to send traveling with ours 🌍

So there are a total of 25 different rocks that have been contributed by our family and others from all around NZ and for the next 3 months they are going to be traveling all around the world with 7 wonderful people from the Air NZ team who are going to be sharing our rocks journey with everyone. Taking photos from all of the places that they go to and with people they might meet so that we can 🌍

So if you want to join in the fun and follow along then be sure to follow Rocks on Tour for updates as well as the hashtag and share with anyone you know who would enjoy the journey too 😃

27/03/2019

Operation is about to take off 🛫 so watch this space...