Spirit
30-03-2004, 07:52 AM
First update for you from our leader:
"Finally! After all that trucking about we managed to find enough time to sit down to write some emails, and offcourse an update... Its been great so far, we've done loads, seen loads and driven loads. Barry's got himself a new hobby: extreme campervanning. Betty's done the filming so wait till we're back for that. After flying from Manchester to Kuala Lumpur, Brisbane, Auckland and Christchurch we found ourselves missing a day... Divvies downunder!!! So Margaret and Barry had been waiting in Christchurch for us on the 24th, and we only arrived on the 25th. DOH! But we were still very welcome in the Murray/van Beurten household and spend two days in lovely Christchurch.
So on saturday afternoon we went off to Akaora and went dolphin watching. From there we drove down to Lake Pukaki and spend an evening under the stars with a cold beer. Nice! Next morning we woke up to the most amazing view of Mt Cook. From there it was off to Queenstown. We walked up Queen's hill for another amazing view of mountain ranges, lakes & snow etc... See the pics later.
Did a quick tour of Arrowtown (not Arrow/Anchorhead for all you SWG fans out there... Barry'll explain later...) and the Chinese mining settlement. Spend the night at a caravan park as Betty was getting desperate for a shower by now... So today we drove across to the Westcoast through Wanaka and Mount Aspiring National Park. As we've only just reached the Fox Glacier now we've decided to have a look at the Glowworm cave now and have a looky at Franz Josef Glacier tomorrow. Right, that's us off for a look at worms... I told Barry not to eat that bit of meat! More detailed account of the mystery men of KL, divvies downunder, the thing that happened to Barry..., extreme campervanning AND MORE later!!!!!! See yas"
"Finally! After all that trucking about we managed to find enough time to sit down to write some emails, and offcourse an update... Its been great so far, we've done loads, seen loads and driven loads. Barry's got himself a new hobby: extreme campervanning. Betty's done the filming so wait till we're back for that. After flying from Manchester to Kuala Lumpur, Brisbane, Auckland and Christchurch we found ourselves missing a day... Divvies downunder!!! So Margaret and Barry had been waiting in Christchurch for us on the 24th, and we only arrived on the 25th. DOH! But we were still very welcome in the Murray/van Beurten household and spend two days in lovely Christchurch.
So on saturday afternoon we went off to Akaora and went dolphin watching. From there we drove down to Lake Pukaki and spend an evening under the stars with a cold beer. Nice! Next morning we woke up to the most amazing view of Mt Cook. From there it was off to Queenstown. We walked up Queen's hill for another amazing view of mountain ranges, lakes & snow etc... See the pics later.
Did a quick tour of Arrowtown (not Arrow/Anchorhead for all you SWG fans out there... Barry'll explain later...) and the Chinese mining settlement. Spend the night at a caravan park as Betty was getting desperate for a shower by now... So today we drove across to the Westcoast through Wanaka and Mount Aspiring National Park. As we've only just reached the Fox Glacier now we've decided to have a look at the Glowworm cave now and have a looky at Franz Josef Glacier tomorrow. Right, that's us off for a look at worms... I told Barry not to eat that bit of meat! More detailed account of the mystery men of KL, divvies downunder, the thing that happened to Barry..., extreme campervanning AND MORE later!!!!!! See yas"