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New Zealand
Back to the West Coast
On Friday, we headed west from Nelson through some forested country back towards Punakaiki where we had previously spent a night. This journey completed the top loop of our ‘figure eight’ drive around New Zealand. The country along the first part of the day was through mountainous pine forest. Many of the steep hills along […]
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New Zealand
A Quiet Day in Nelson
Because we have two days here in Nelson, we deliberately kept our start to the day slow and relaxed. We were still in our hotel room at 10.30 am before leaving for a day of looking around this area of the northern South Island. We thought that we should put the car through a car […]
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New Zealand
The Marlborough Area of New Zealand
Kaikōura where we have spent last night began as an isolated whaling location. Whalers first came to New Zealand waters in 1792, initially to hunt sperm whales from their ships. Shore whaling began in the 1820s. Southern right whales were killed and their blubber rended down. The oil produced from that process was used to […]
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