For a long time I had wanted to walk the Abel Tasman track, which is one of Doc’s great walks in New Zealand and I finally got motivated enough to plan a trip and get out and do it. We made out way up towards the track on a Tuesday night and stayed in...
Station creek four wheel driving February 2017
Another trip out of town luckily it wasn’t to much of an early start but none the less another coffee was consumed on the way out of town, heading north past Hamner Springs and towards Springs junction which is on the way to Nelson. The journey out of town and to the meeting point...
Hopkins and Dobsons river four wheel driving – part 2 April 2016
So after a great night of yarns around the fire and having a few more refreshments, it was time to get packed up and head out and after some bacon and eggs it was time to head on out again and make our way back into Twizel and we had to go around the...
Hopkins and Dobsons river four wheel driving – part 1 April 2016
Another early start had us on the road to pick up one of my friends from the other side of town and a pretty uneventful trip to Ashburton and the usual coffee stop on the way through. After a nice drive through Fairlie and Geraldine we ended up in Twizel the meeting point for the...