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Travels around the world in search of the bottom of the bucket

“I want to be on the road again, to see things I’ve never seen before, and may never see again.” ~Willie Travel around the world in search of the bottom of the bucket (list) providing information on travel, locations and products for travellers

WANDERLUST: A very strong and irresistible impulse or desire to travel the world

All who wander are not lost

09/03/2024

Waikawa Bay ... lovely day for a swim

09/03/2024

Percy rides again

26/05/2022

Omarama hot tubs !!
(Photo Anthony Williams)

23/05/2022

Relections
Perfect weather for boat envy

22/05/2022

Early light and snow on the ranges

21/05/2022

☀️Sunshine☀️ 8⁰
After 13 of 14 days of rain today we have wall to wall blue sky
Took the backroads, inland, north from Rangiora and the Ashley river
Snow on the back side of the Seaward Kaikouras
Awesome camping spot for the afternoon and night looking out over all the quake exposed seabed near the seal colony

18/05/2022

On the road again
Up over the Poolburn hill and through historic Ophir to Alexandra
Dinner at Monteith's (recommended)
Then back to lake Dunstan for the night (it's blowing a gale) ready to run the Lindis Pass in the other direction in the hope of some sun at the right places

18/05/2022

Enjoying the sunshine in the Ida Valley .. laundry flying in the breeze .. dogs to pet
A very local memory lane remember who lived here tour

16/05/2022

The Ida Valley

The NZ government ran a land grant lottery for returning servicemen after WWII . And that is how Rosebank farm, later renamed Fenlaw, came into the family.
880 hectares of mixed flat and rocky hillside north of the Idaburn about 8km from the village of Oturehua

The school is gone, one of the two churches is a holiday home, and the store is part museum, but the pub/hotel remains.

15/05/2022

A day of history and nostalgia travelling through the Manuherikia... Lauder, Becks, Cambrian .. to Ranfurly.

Grandad Robert Mee was the proprietor of the Old White Horse Hotel and post office from 1909 until he built the new hotel 100 yards up on the other side of the road.
At the same time Grandad James Rutherford was farming a few miles away at Cambrian.

Robert's daughter Pat cooked at the new hotel until she married James' son Stewart upon his return from WWII and moved 'over the hill' into the Ida Valley .... That's tomorrow's story

14/05/2022

The historic town of Clyde (originally Dunstan) grew up during the 1860s gold rush built below😲 the dam on the mighty Clutha river
Current population about 1250

12/05/2022

1⁰ 🌞Lindis Pass🌞

Perhaps due to the brief, but well timed, burst of sunshine Lindis Pass 965m was much more satisfying than the others.
Immense walls of schist rock guarded the way like the entrance to Mordor

In contrast, Lake Dunstan was flat calm, a perfect mirror for the black swans (and hundreds of ducks!)

The color was late this year but we were just a few days later. Not too many really good autumn scenes left.

12⁰c

Late lunch at Lowburn on the west side of the lake ... decided to stay
Perfect timing because by 3pm we had lots of company

11/05/2022

LAKE TEKAPO and PUKAKI

BRRR it was a nippy 2⁰ under heavy grey cloud this morning as we set out around the lakes

Camera angle IS everything... the Church of the Good Shephard ( most photographed in New Zealand) was not nearly as isolated as it seems in most photos.

The sun has finally broken through as we settle into a wonderful camp at Omarama

10/05/2022

BURKE'S PASS

Took the scenic inland route through the endless fields of kale to Glentunnel and Windwhistle but caught nary a glimpse of Mt Hutt through all the cloud and rain
The mighty Rakaia Taniwha gave us a small break in the weather at the top of the Gorge to look down upon what he had made
Turned west at Geraldine towards Fairlie and finally ran into sunshine ☀️ as we crossed Burke's Pass 709m

Parked up just short of Lake Tekapo with 🤞 for 🌞 tomorrow

09/05/2022

In between bands of rain

08/05/2022

ARTHUR'S PASS

Headed into the Otira Gorge under heavy black cloud which quickly gave way to lashing rain as we climbed towards Arthur's Pass (3020ft)

The viaduct was impressive but the wow moment for me was the snow shed and waterfall diversion chute!

Stopped at the historic Otira Stagecoach Hotel (but it was closed) and wondered at the ummm... gargoyle?! 🤣

07/05/2022

WESTWARD HO! LEWIS PASS

Sun losing to the sea fog in Kaikoura
Sunshine across the Lewis pass
Sundown parked up on the Grey River southern breakwater

06/03/2022

sandflies on the west coast

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