Continue Reading Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail After finishing another one of mum’s so called short flat tracks out of Bright, we headed to Warburton. The best part of…
Continue Reading A Bright new day! Last night we filled our bellies with a roast dinner cooked in our Wombat Retreat Cottage. I got some new bike tips…
Continue Reading Dog on the Tuckerbox The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument 5 miles from Gundagai. The history of statue goes back to…
Continue Reading Art brings life to Christchurch Earthquake 22 Feb 2011 At 12.51 p.m. on Tuesday 22 February 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused severe damage in Christchurch and Lyttelton,…
Continue Reading Hanmer … not hammer We spent two days in Hanmer Springs. Hanmer Springs was named after the surveyor Thomas Hanmer. Grace and I measured ourselves! The town was…
Continue Reading Where’s the glacier? We had travelled to the west coast of New Zealand to see the glaciers. Firstly we drove over Haast Pass. Along the…
Continue Reading Splash that water Mum woke up early and booked a QUAD BIKE tour. Mum remembered Mark and Kel doing it when they visited Franz Joseph. It…
Continue Reading The story of Ah Lum Between 1860 to 1880 about 800 Chinese came to Otago and West Coast in search of gold. In 2002 the New Zealand Government…
Continue Reading Better by bike Today I got back in my nicks and riding shirt as we were off to ride the Gibbston Valley Track. After Better…
Continue Reading Helping native birds survive Ferrets and stoats were introduced into New Zealand to stop the rabbits. But they started eating ground birds eggs. In six years…