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  • Crossing Cook Strait

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    OK, so I’m starting this one the day before, with the arrival into Picton. I could have booked the ferry for that afternoon, or even that evening, but I wasn’t sure how much wiggle room was needed between train & ferry, and I kind of like Picton, so I stayed the night at a place…

  • Christchurch to Picton on the Coastal Pacific

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    I slept badly, which wasn’t great. Not entirely sure why, though concern over getting to the station on time probably played a major part. The Christchurch station isn’t in the middle of the town, unlike a lot of others, and the hotel booked a shuttle for me; I’d not realised that the Super Shuttles operation…

  • Christchurch

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    There’s a bunch of images, you should be used to it by now. Part of the goal for Christchurch was to just stop for a while, because I’ve been doing a lot of things, and while that’s fun, it’s also tiring, and it makes it harder to plan out the next things. Another part was…

  • Queenstown to Dunedin to Christchurch

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    That was a really long day of sitting on a bus. The same bus went all the way, but it was scheduled as two separate trips, so I had to collect & then re-check the big bag. It was by no means a bad trip, but I’m glad I paid the few extra dollars for…

  • A Day In Queenstown

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    A day with nothing specific planned, so after a wander out along the lake on one side of town, I rode the Gondola to look at the view from high up. And then went on the Luge.

  • Day Trip To Milford Sound

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    This one is extremely image heavy. No big surprise there, I grant you, but you’ve been warned. It was amazing, but also a long day, and I think a chunk of the passengers fell asleep on the way back; I know I nodded off a few times.

  • Dunedin to Queenstown

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    Oh look, a cut because of images. That’s a surprise. This was another travel day, though not an early-start day, thankfully, and I’ve got a better idea of where to kill time in Dunedin now.

  • Invercargill (again) to Dunedin (again)

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    Image heavy (again), so there’s a cut (again).

  • Rakiura

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    Image-heavy, so I’m putting in a cut. As a general summary of my day-and-a-bit on Rakiura: I think I did pretty much everything I had the equipment & patience & capacity to do.Walked pretty much every track I could find, including one I found by accidentTried a Southland Cheese RollHad my most southerly pub beer…

  • Ferry To Rakiura/Stewart Island

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    Some kids were hanging out on the back of the ferry. Then there were screams. Turns out that they didn’t know about waves that break over the back of the boat and go EVERYWHERE. Those brave children warned us, and we heeded their warning. Also, all their dry stuff was in the luggage bins, which…