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A day of snuggling up next to a fire

Way too cold for me to face the outdoors today. It was even snowing on the mountains outside our camp thus a plan for me to join Chris on another “ing” expedition failed and after just 5 minutes outside I swiftly turned back around and huddled up next to the fire for the day whilst Chris...

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chrischarly on January 15, 2012 from Hollyford, New Zealand

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Milford Sound, seals and flippin' dolphins!

This morning despite the weather took the amazing scenic drive to Milford Sound. It is just a shame that after such fantastic weather over Christmas; the day we decide to go here it pours down. But determined we would enjoy it whatever the weather we went anyway armed with our new...

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chrischarly on January 14, 2012 from Milford Sound, New Zealand

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Satan's spawn...

Woke to lots of rain, so the 5am fishing expedition was cancelled. We packed up and headed out to Te Anau, the gateway to Milford Sound and a refreshing break from Satan's spawn; the vicious sand-fly... We went to the visitor info, before finding a campsite and a nice hot shower. They are...

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chrischarly on January 13, 2012 from Te Anau, New Zealand

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New sport = "ing"

Day 3 of fishing and no fish, Chris has seen them, but they are just taunting him. We moved to the nice spot on the River and Chris continued his quest. The weather turned today, so fishing was broken, by sitting in the car. We met a local guy who gave Chris some advice on fishing and also...

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chrischarly on January 12, 2012 from Mossburn, New Zealand

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Clever trout

Chris got up about 8am and went straight down to the lake in search for the wild trout. He tried all of his methods, and fished most of the day, but other than one bite, we were fishless once again. We went for a short drive around the whole campsite ending up at a nice spot on the River,...

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chrischarly on January 11, 2012 from Mossburn, New Zealand

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NZ....the camping fun begins here!

We'd booked into Nomads hostel & met up with Jonathan, our pal from Manchester who'd madly wanted to join us through NZ, who'd already arrived the day before. This was the first chance we'd got to get our heads together & try to plan & organise the next few weeks in NZ. However the most...

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mich_and_dan_moors on January 11, 2012 from Queenstown, New Zealand

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Finally our carvans kitted out!!

After spending our last night on the floor of our ‘carvan’ we woke up at 7:30am to get ready for Ed to start fitting out the back with bed and storage. As expected he did an amazing job and much quicker and better than we could have done ourselves, well worth the money! After it...

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chrischarly on January 10, 2012 from Mossburn, New Zealand

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Back to Queenstown

Chris went for an early-morning fish whilst I still slept feeling optimistic about a fish breakfast. Unfortunately by the time I got up and walked down to him, he himself was walking back without anything but his rod. We then packed up and drove back to Glenorchy so we could get phone signal...

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chrischarly on January 9, 2012 from Glenorchy, New Zealand

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Kia Ora

Our flight to New Zealand began with an early morning get up and in the sunshine of Melbourne, 3 hours later and we were touching down in a drenched Auckland! the weather did not dampen our spirits though as we found our hostel and checked out the local irish bar for a pie and a pint, it was...

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michaeltibbitts on January 8, 2012 from Auckland, New Zealand

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Gorgeous NZ

We slept pretty well last night especially considering we still need to buy a proper mattress for it and Chris was already out fishing first thing in the Crystal clear ‘Diamond Lake’. He was pretty disappointed that he didn’t catch anything though as he could see all the trout...

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chrischarly on January 8, 2012 from Glenorchy, New Zealand

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