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Cruise New Zealand Akaroa- Ecoseakers Swim with Dolphins

August 20, 2018

The next stop on our New Zealand Cruise is Akaroa to swim with the Dolphins. This is a must book once in a life time excursion that had been on the top of our list for a very long time. We booked through a family […]

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New Zealand Cruise- Picton Boat Cruise to Queen Charlotte Track

August 9, 2018

Picton is a harbor village that serves as the New Zealand’s south island ferry terminal. It is also the start of the Queen Charlotte hiking track. This was the one port that we had not scheduled a tour. One of the main excursions is taking […]

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New Zealand Cruise- Exploring Wellington in One Day

August 3, 2018

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. We were excited to explore all the amazing things to do in Wellington. Best of all everything we wanted to do we could do without a tour and at minimal cost. Cable Car and Botanical Garden We […]

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New Zealand Cruise- Napier Winery Bike Ride

June 7, 2018

Napier has been one cruise port that I have been looking forward to since I researched the Art Deco city. The city of Napier was destroyed by an earthquake back in 1931. They rebuilt the city in the new up and coming style Art Deco […]

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New Zealand Cruise- Tauranga- Mount Maunganui

May 31, 2018

Our first full day on our 10 day New Zealand cruise was a stop at the port city of Tauranga which, technically the port is in Mount Maunganui. Mount Maunganui is a resort community on the coast. Most cruise tours use this port to take […]

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Cruise New Zealand- Auckland

May 25, 2018

The day had finally arrived for us to board our New Zealand cruise to Australia. The 10 day trip was on the Norwegian Jewel. This was our “make up” cruise from the disaster of our previous cruise breaking down at sea for two day in […]

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New Zealand- Wine tasting on Waiheke Island from Auckland

May 11, 2018

The next morning we woke up early in Rotorua to return our car to the Auckland airport by 10am, our goal was to take a ferry to Waiheke Island. The drive was 2 hours and 35 mins but we knew there would be traffic so […]

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New Zealand- Rotorua Adventure Day

May 3, 2018

Before leaving Taupo for Rotorua we stopped off at a hidden free gem. One of my friends told us about a hot springs in the Spa Thermal Park so we had time to burn due to our incurable jet lag. We headed out to explore. […]

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New Zealand- Tongariro Alpine Crossing Hike

April 26, 2018

The next morning, while my husband was out for a run, I decided I did want to hike Tongariro Alpine Crossing. My thought is that we might never get to do this again so why not seize the moment. Unfortunately, His run went long and […]

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New Zealand- Hobbiton and Waitamo Glow Worm Caves

April 20, 2018

The next morning we were up bright and early, partly due to the incurable jetlag, and because we needed to get to Hobbiton early. Since we were up so early we had additional time to take pictures of the sunrise at the beach. Ahh the […]

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