Road to Queenstown Pt1.

We left the mount at around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, delaying our leaving as long as possible as non of us where happy to leave the place we now called home. But eventually we set off on our epic road trip to find ourselves a mountain. The plan was simple, point the car in the direction of Queenstown and drive until we can touch ourselves a mountain called the remarkables.
The journey took three days, 3 and a half tanks of fuel, plenty of fast food, and hours upon hours of general conversation. Our first stop was 'Bollys' house. Ian had wanted to go back here after his 2 week stay and when we got there I could see why. The place was amazing, all hand built by the owners there was two log houses, one for living in and the other for cooking pizzas and bread, there was also a wooden shed which was lived in by the family while the house was being built. A short walk up the steep hill behind the house revealed an amazing view of the distant mountains and as far away as they where we still had further to travel, Already overwhelmed by the beauty, cold, and sense of freedom we had we where not even half the way there.

Quality

Sorry about the poor quality vid, the blogspot comptressed it, what do you expect from a free website, Tisk.

NZ Video 1

Made this video from clips scraped together from Ians and my camera.

Music by Iron&wine which sums up the pace of New Zealnd, sit back, relax, and enjoy.

A coulpe more vids left to come, one about life in our house in Mount Manuganui and the other about the epic road trip down to Queenstown. Hope you enjoy this vid as much as I enjoyed filming it.

Kiwis kiwis kiwis

The kiwi packhouse, despite being the most un-thrilling job I hope ever to have was in fact a real interesting place to work. The amount of people the packhouse employed was less then others which gave the place a good vibe. I really enjoyed getting to know all the people here.

The majority of employes where travelers earning money for the next step of there journey, it was great to work with them and here there stories and a shame that the next step of our journey would take us all so far from each other, some heading home, some to bali some to Indonesia and some, like me, where off to find work somewhere else in New Zealand.

Back South

Looking forward to the trip back to the south Island. Here are some pictures from our first visit to the south taken from Ians camera.

Goodbye to the mount

These pictures are from mount manganui. I have been living here for a couple of months and like many others have called it home. The memories I will take from this place will hopefully last forever, the work has been hard but the people and the place has way outbalance the long hours for little cash I have saved. I hate to say goodbye but with the areas seasonal work over I have to move on to find work, Origionaly planning for Mt Ruapehu as it is closer and a cheaper place to live but I soon changed my mind and heard the call of Queenstown, the best place to party and snowboard in new zealand, the bright lights call, and I will answer.

I will miss a lot about this place and hope everyone I have met here go's on to lead a great life.