More wildlife and nature.
Door: Louise
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08 Maart 2011 | Nieuw Zeeland, Invercargill
Well, here I am again. Want to place photo's and video's as well, but this internet cafe doesn't seem to have those supplies to post photo's and such.
BUT, we can use the internet for free, cause they feel sorry for us, since we were in Christchurch during the earthquake, ;-)
Let me tell you first about our nice neighbor in Dunedin, Mrs. Edith Bunker I call her. She is really a lady, about 70 years old and she told us she met this lady on a train ride in Dunedin. Liek she said: "She is about 10 years younger then I am and she drives a bloody MG! What is a lady that age doing driving a bloody MG?" And the way she was telling us this, with her english accent, way too funny! And she wants to jump out of an airplane in Queenstown! "With your husband?" we asked. "No way!", she said, "with a bloody nice young stud ofcourse!!! And you know what, I won't die
and if I do, I am close to the end of my life anyway, so at least I am doing something fun! So, I might as well jump out of an airplane!" We were laughing! And she is right.
Well, so far the story of Mrs. Edith Bunker.
Saturday after breakfast,well, brunch, we got up late, we went for a stroll on the beach. Then we wanted to get some coffee, but coudn't find a cafe. So, I asked this lady that was doing "fast walking" She is probalbly in her early 60-ties.
"I will show you a place where you can have nice coffee. You walk fast?" she said.
No, we don't and we don't really want to, but hey, we DO want some coffee. And there we went, Carin next to her, I was behind them. Maybe she was in a hurry, or she walks like that al the time, but it went pretty fast. The lady was twice as small as Carin, so that was a funny site, me walking behind them. Took a photo, will place it later. She went faster and faster, Carin took 2 big steps, she did 4 short,fast steps and I was almost running behind them, :biggrin:
Espresso tasted good though!
Well, sunday was a great day! We did this Peninsula wildlife tour! Oh gosh, so beautiful and we saw some wildlife!
Our guide was Sean, nice guy, told us all about the area and wildlife. We were with 10 people, so nice group. First we did the albatros tour. Got some info, saw a little movie. The spanwide of an albatros is around 3 meters, or sometimes even more. We went to this point where they were flying above us. Really hard to take photo's, but we met this lady from Malysia, who is gonna mail us some photo's. She had some great shots!
The Peninsula of Dunedin is really big. Carin wanted to drive it with the camper, well, no way jose, not me, the roads were pretty narrow, some off them only gravel, glad we had a nice guide we trusted! I do trust Carin too ofcourse! ;-)
Anyway, after the albatros, we went to see some fur seals. First a windy drive thru the hills, then we had to walk up and down hill, yep, we sure had to do some exercise in order to see the wildlife.
Oh gosh, those fur seals are so cute! Lots of them. One was just being attacked by a bigger one, thank god I didn't see it. She died.
I got the little ones on film, put those video's on later.
After the seals, we went to a different place, yep, hiking down hill. There were some seelions. Big ones. They were asleep, so Sean, our guide said, we come back later, when they are a wake. (and when we came bakc later, they sure were awake! but I tell you later about it.)
Of to the penguins. The yellow eyed.
Got those on film too. They came out of the ocean, walking to the rocks. It is really funny to see them walk and they are cute as well.
Took some photo's, hope they turn out ok, because you can't be too close to them.
OK, still owe you the story of the seelions. When we came backt to the place on the beach where they were, they were awake and even posing for us, so we could take pictures. All of a sudden, one of them started to run to us. They can run 20 km.per hour, so that is pretty fast.
It scared the shit out of me, but Sean, stood right in fromt of the seelion, held up his hand and the seelion stopped. Made some noise though, but he stopped going after us. Well, a minute later, he came running again. Oh boy, was I scared again, I got the shakerietusm what ever you might call it. Thought only with an earthquake I can get the shakerietus, but when a seelion runs after you, wel, I got a big shaky too!
But it was a great tour! Glad we did it. Monday we took of to the Catlin coast. Found a nice little campground in the rainforest. WOW, from there we took a walk thru the rainforest to the Mc. Lean waterfalls. So beatifull!!! Pics I will post later. Can't figure it out here. While we were wlaking, you couls here and see all kinds of birds! So nice!
At nite we had dinner at the campground cafe. We treated our sefes to a nice dinner with nice desert. I had baileys with chocolate moussen and raspberries and whipped cream! I sure enjoyed that the fullest!
Next day, this morning, yes I remember waht we did this morning, ;-) we left for Invercargill. We made a few stops to see the nice area. We stopped at Curio bay, were there was a sad, kinda sick penguin and a dead penguin as well. Couldn't watch it.
Now we are in Invercargill, kinda boring town, but we will find a campground outside town.
Tomorrow to Manapuri, where we are doing the overnite cruise thursday/friday.
This was it for now, unfortuanally can't place the photo's now, will do it a.s.a.p..
Hasta pronto!
Louise
BUT, we can use the internet for free, cause they feel sorry for us, since we were in Christchurch during the earthquake, ;-)
Let me tell you first about our nice neighbor in Dunedin, Mrs. Edith Bunker I call her. She is really a lady, about 70 years old and she told us she met this lady on a train ride in Dunedin. Liek she said: "She is about 10 years younger then I am and she drives a bloody MG! What is a lady that age doing driving a bloody MG?" And the way she was telling us this, with her english accent, way too funny! And she wants to jump out of an airplane in Queenstown! "With your husband?" we asked. "No way!", she said, "with a bloody nice young stud ofcourse!!! And you know what, I won't die
and if I do, I am close to the end of my life anyway, so at least I am doing something fun! So, I might as well jump out of an airplane!" We were laughing! And she is right.
Well, so far the story of Mrs. Edith Bunker.
Saturday after breakfast,well, brunch, we got up late, we went for a stroll on the beach. Then we wanted to get some coffee, but coudn't find a cafe. So, I asked this lady that was doing "fast walking" She is probalbly in her early 60-ties.
"I will show you a place where you can have nice coffee. You walk fast?" she said.
No, we don't and we don't really want to, but hey, we DO want some coffee. And there we went, Carin next to her, I was behind them. Maybe she was in a hurry, or she walks like that al the time, but it went pretty fast. The lady was twice as small as Carin, so that was a funny site, me walking behind them. Took a photo, will place it later. She went faster and faster, Carin took 2 big steps, she did 4 short,fast steps and I was almost running behind them, :biggrin:
Espresso tasted good though!
Well, sunday was a great day! We did this Peninsula wildlife tour! Oh gosh, so beautiful and we saw some wildlife!
Our guide was Sean, nice guy, told us all about the area and wildlife. We were with 10 people, so nice group. First we did the albatros tour. Got some info, saw a little movie. The spanwide of an albatros is around 3 meters, or sometimes even more. We went to this point where they were flying above us. Really hard to take photo's, but we met this lady from Malysia, who is gonna mail us some photo's. She had some great shots!
The Peninsula of Dunedin is really big. Carin wanted to drive it with the camper, well, no way jose, not me, the roads were pretty narrow, some off them only gravel, glad we had a nice guide we trusted! I do trust Carin too ofcourse! ;-)
Anyway, after the albatros, we went to see some fur seals. First a windy drive thru the hills, then we had to walk up and down hill, yep, we sure had to do some exercise in order to see the wildlife.
Oh gosh, those fur seals are so cute! Lots of them. One was just being attacked by a bigger one, thank god I didn't see it. She died.
I got the little ones on film, put those video's on later.
After the seals, we went to a different place, yep, hiking down hill. There were some seelions. Big ones. They were asleep, so Sean, our guide said, we come back later, when they are a wake. (and when we came bakc later, they sure were awake! but I tell you later about it.)
Of to the penguins. The yellow eyed.
Got those on film too. They came out of the ocean, walking to the rocks. It is really funny to see them walk and they are cute as well.
Took some photo's, hope they turn out ok, because you can't be too close to them.
OK, still owe you the story of the seelions. When we came backt to the place on the beach where they were, they were awake and even posing for us, so we could take pictures. All of a sudden, one of them started to run to us. They can run 20 km.per hour, so that is pretty fast.
It scared the shit out of me, but Sean, stood right in fromt of the seelion, held up his hand and the seelion stopped. Made some noise though, but he stopped going after us. Well, a minute later, he came running again. Oh boy, was I scared again, I got the shakerietusm what ever you might call it. Thought only with an earthquake I can get the shakerietus, but when a seelion runs after you, wel, I got a big shaky too!
But it was a great tour! Glad we did it. Monday we took of to the Catlin coast. Found a nice little campground in the rainforest. WOW, from there we took a walk thru the rainforest to the Mc. Lean waterfalls. So beatifull!!! Pics I will post later. Can't figure it out here. While we were wlaking, you couls here and see all kinds of birds! So nice!
At nite we had dinner at the campground cafe. We treated our sefes to a nice dinner with nice desert. I had baileys with chocolate moussen and raspberries and whipped cream! I sure enjoyed that the fullest!
Next day, this morning, yes I remember waht we did this morning, ;-) we left for Invercargill. We made a few stops to see the nice area. We stopped at Curio bay, were there was a sad, kinda sick penguin and a dead penguin as well. Couldn't watch it.
Now we are in Invercargill, kinda boring town, but we will find a campground outside town.
Tomorrow to Manapuri, where we are doing the overnite cruise thursday/friday.
This was it for now, unfortuanally can't place the photo's now, will do it a.s.a.p..
Hasta pronto!
Louise
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08 Maart 2011 - 05:54
Anneke:
Hoi Meiden,
Zo te lezen zitten jullie in ieder geval lekker te genieten van alle mooie dingen, geweldig al die beesten, niet dan? De Catlins zijn ook echt prachtig, mag je hier uberhaupt rijden met de camper?
En gaan jullie de Doubtful Sound doen met "Deep Cove" bij Chris en Diane? Lekker verse kreeft eten, Carin, haha. Jullie zullen onder de indruk zijn van de stilte daar, enjoy!! grt. anneke -
08 Maart 2011 - 06:29
Louise:
Hi, I am having problems with placing pictures and video's. At the internet cafe it didn't work and here at the campground it doesn't work either, pfffff
Will try tomorrow in Manapouri, hopefully they have some good pc's overthere.
Thanks weverybody for responding. Very nice to read your comments and stuff.
Adios for now!
Toedeloe,
Lou -
08 Maart 2011 - 06:56
Mirjam Hildebrand:
Hey Louise! Dit zijn de betere verhalen. Ik ben geinspireerd door miss Edith Bunker, live your live the Bunker way ;) En weer een lesje geleerd, uitkijken voor de zeeleeuwen! -
08 Maart 2011 - 09:33
Carin:
Ha iedereen,lou had een leuk idee!toch maar n keer de tv fixen,kunnen we gezellig kijken,Resultaat?huilend voor de tv!aflevering van law en order was erg heavy,Goed idee lou,kunnen we lekker ontspannen gaan slapen n keer haha! -
08 Maart 2011 - 10:14
Corry:
Heerlijk om die leuke verhalen van jou te lezen Louise! Je zou wel een boek kunnen schrijven! Het is vanochtend rustig en saai op kantoor. Ik geniet van jullie belevenissen. Zie het gewoon voor me en zit in mijn eentje te lachen. Wat ben ik blij dat jullie zoveel moois zien, geweldig hoor. Kan me voorstellen dat Carin zo wel een paar pinguins zou willen meenemen. Ook niet gek, elke dag even trainen/hardlopen met de zeeleeuwen! Binnen de kortste keren hebben jullie een topconditie!
Jullie moeten er wel wat voor over hebben om een lekker bakkie koffie te drinken. In Nederland hebben we deze dagen mooi weer, koud maar zonnig. Voor jullie welterusten en ik zie uit naar de volgende aflevering...
Liefs, -
08 Maart 2011 - 10:38
Jacqueline:
Wat lekker om te lezen wat je allemaal aan het doen bent. Aanstekelijk! Terwijl ik mijn actielijsten doorworstel geniet ik mee :-) Heerlijk. Liefs, jacqueline -
08 Maart 2011 - 10:57
Sabien:
Gelukkig zit de vakantiepret er weer goed in,maar je valt van het ene avontuur in het andere...echt gave verhalen en mooie foto's erbij!! Bijzonder om al die wilde dieren van dichtbij te zien, maar aaien zit er niet bij..Heel veel plezier op de volgende tocht,veel liefsxxbien -
08 Maart 2011 - 13:11
Sylvia:
Hey meiden, zo dat zijn betere verhalen! je hebt wel wat te vertellen zo! Beter een zeeleeuw dan een aardbeving, toch? Volgens mij genieten jullie toch nog volop! de foto's houden we tegoed! Veel plezier met de cruise! Groetjes, Sylvia -
08 Maart 2011 - 15:04
Tit En Dientje:
meiden wat moeten we nu nog zeggen als alleen maar geweldig wat maken jullie gelukkig een fijne mooie enz. dingen mee law en order bracht een beetje roet in het eten maar toch !. hurrie up weer door hoor.Oortje ligt naast me uitgevloerd en voldaan na een fikse wandeling in het duin doet jullie de groetjes en blaft! het is hier ook heel mooi hoor niet vergeten ,al ben ik geen pinguin of zeehondje. het is vandaag prachtig weer.Liefs ORA tit en dientje -
08 Maart 2011 - 18:35
Stella:
wat een leuk verhaal,lekker genieten hoor.kijk al uit naar jullie foto s.
gr stella -
08 Maart 2011 - 19:22
Jane:
Hi Louise,
really jealous of what you are doing. And hearing about the places which you have visted which i also have visted, brings back great memories. Have fun in doubtful sounds really amazing place hopefully you will see some dolphins and some more penguins and sea lions. Have lots more fun x jane
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10 Maart 2011 - 10:17
Marjolein:
Hi Girls, Mooi verhaal weer en jullie maken weer genoeg leuke dingen mee, zien veel mooie natuur. Prachtig foto`s staan er weer bij. Gweldig die foto met Carin en dat kleine vrouwtje.
Heb problemen met mijn laptop dus weet niet wanneer ik jullie verhalen weer kan lezen.
Groetjes liefs Mar
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