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Mar 15 Greymouth
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Travel Fox to Greymouth retracing our steps. We get up, caffeinate, pack — yech, seems like we’re always packing for one reason or another — and drive out of Fox Glacier after Cynthia makes a couple egg salad sandwiches for… Continue reading
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Mar 14 Fox Glacier
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Heli-hike on Fox Glacier and circumnavigate Lake Matheson. We wake, dress, get caffeinated and are at the Fox Glacier Heli-hiking office a two-minute walk from our split-level rooms. We ask the Asian gal behind the counter if our 8:50… Continue reading
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Mar 13 Okarito to Fox Glacier
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Kayak on lagoon and travel to Fox. We have 8:00 a.m. coffee and tea with Rich and Karen, lodge-mates from Madison, Wisconsin, who are going on the Okarito lagoon bird-watching kayak adventure with us at 8:45. As we prepare to… Continue reading
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Mar 10 Westport to Hokitika
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Drive to Hokitika for Wildfoods Festival and Pancake Rocks along the way. We try to take care of administrative matters before we leave the Archer House in Westport but its caretakers, Jackie and Charlie, who are about to tour Scotland… Continue reading
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Mar 9 Westport / Karamea
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Tramping in Karamea with hitchhikers. David wakes and runs by 7 on a narrow path along the wide Buller River, which looks a little like the flat parts of the Shenandoah River near Great Meadows, Virginia. Weka scuttle in the… Continue reading
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Mar 8 Westport
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Sadly, we leave Robin and Bernice’s lovely home on Francis Street in Blenheim, but we motor easily under sunny skies — SUNNY SKIES!!! — to Villa Maria’s main Marlborough vineyard for some a.m. tasting of their single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc… Continue reading
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The Journey Begins
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We depart Washington Dulles Airport for Auckland. 22 hours of travel ahead. It was a beautiful day in DC. But saddened by the funeral of Ravi Shankar who touched many with his love of tennis and anyone who shared this… Continue reading
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