Life in Colorado

Month April 2006

New Zealand Finale – Queenstown

Queenstown is sometimes compared to Lake Tahoe because of the lake, and the mix of winter (skiing) and summer (boating) activities. But the comparison doesn’t do justice to Queenstown. The lake is more magnificent, the mountains truly dramatic (they’re called… Continue Reading →

New Zealand: Helihiking the Franz Josef Glacier

After the underwater adventure, we headed on down the coast to Hokitika. We stopped at Punekiki to see the blowholes and pancake rocks but sadly the sun had gone down so all we saw was a few possums in the… Continue Reading →

New Zealand: Under World Rafting!!

We left Nelson pretty early this morning to drive South to Charleston (which is just south of Westport). Charleston is a small town (150 people), but many years ago (New Zealand’s Gold Rush) the town population was up to 130,000… Continue Reading →

Abel Tasman kayaking

New Zealand Part three – Adventuring in Abel Tasman I have decided that I am a First Class Adventurer – I love to explore, adventure, hike (insert activity here) but at the end of the day I like a hot… Continue Reading →

New Zealand (part two)

We left Martinborough and headed back to Greytown to buy more chocolate for Greg and then off to Wellington. (Before we left we grabbed a quick shot of the whole group – notice the similarities between Michael and Roland). Wellington… Continue Reading →

New Zealand (part one)

Well we are on our adventure!! We took off Saturday afternoon and headed to SFO before getting on our Air New Zealand Flight to Auckland. Greg had been in charge of purchasing us some snacks and we ended up with… Continue Reading →

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