🌊 Giants of Stone, Lighthouse Winds and the Wildest Slide Ever
We carried on along the Great Ocean Road, and the coastline just kept throwing out bigger and better scenery. Our first stop…
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Farewell New Zealand… Australia, You’re Up.
Today felt like the quiet inhale before the next big chapter. After more than a month of mountains, glow worms, alpine lakes,…
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Day 37: A Quiet Drift Toward Goodbye – Auckland Botanic Gardens & Our Last Day in New Zealand
After nearly 6 wild, wonderful, absolutely bonkers-beautiful weeks zig-zagging across New Zealand, Day 37 landed a bit different. No big drives. No…
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Day 36 – Waterfalls, Wild Beaches and Writing 2025 Into the Sand
New Zealand really turned it on today. We packed a waterfall, a lake, a west-coast beach and a family adventure all into…
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Day 35 – Wandering the Worlds of Hamilton Gardens
After the magic of Hobbiton the day before, we kept the fantasy world rolling and headed to Hamilton Gardens. And honestly, this…
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Day 34 – A Walk Through Middle-earth: Our Hobbiton Adventure
Today was one of those days that felt like stepping straight through the screen and into the world Peter Jackson built. We…
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Day 33 — Ruakuri Cave & Waitomo Glowworms: A Full-On Underground Adventure
Today we went deep underground… twice. And honestly, if we’d only done the boat cave we’d have felt a bit robbed. But…
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Day 32 – A Birthday Spent Battling Rapids, Saving Swimmers and Screaming Through Jet Boats
If you’d told me last year that I’d spend my birthday surfing white-water rapids, hauling strangers back into a boat, and then…
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🌊 Day 31 – The Colour-Changing River and the Power of Aratiatia
Today was one of those lighter travel days that still somehow managed to feel massive. We started the morning by swapping locations…
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Day 30 – Springs, Giants, Lost Villages and a Night of Neon Steam.
Day 30 in New Zealand felt like three days stitched together. One of those days where we walked through so many different…
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DAY 29 — 🌋 Let’s Visit the Place Where the Ground Is Trying to Kill Us
Today we headed to the Thermal lava pools and so we rolled into Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, just driving in its the kind…
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🌋 Day 28 – Mud Pools, Missed Beaches, and Rotorua Rising
We set out with a simple plan: hit Hot Water Beach, dig a pool, and call ourselves geniuses. But New Zealand loves…
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