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New Zealand Itinerary

For those keeping score at home, here’s the plan (dates are local, hence the apparent asymmetry in travel time).

• 8/5-8/7: Fly from Austin to LA to Auckland to Christchurch
• 8/7-8/8: Christchurch
  • ride the gondola up Mount Cavendish and walk back down
• 8/9-16: Wellington
  • 8/9: travel from Christchurch to Wellington by train and ferry
  • 8/10-16: WWOOF farmstay in Petone — half-days working, half-days exploring
• 8/17-8/26: South Island (with car)
  • 8/17: Picton
  • 8/18: Christchurch
  • 8/19-8/20: Dunedin
    • Otago Peninsula wildlife tour
  • 8/21-8/24: Te Anau
    • Milford Sound nature cruise
    • Kepler Track day hike
    • Doubtful Sound wilderness cruise
  • 8/25: Wanaka
  • 8/26: Fox Glacier
    • Fox Glacier heli-hike
  • 8/27: Christchurch
    • via TranzAlpine train from Greymouth
• 8/28: Fly from Christchurch to Melbourne
• 8/28-8/31: Melbourne
  • symphony, art, aquarium, cricket match
• 8/31: Fly from Melbourne to Auckland to LA to Phoenix to Austin

Many more things I’d like to do, with more time…

OK it’s now the evening of 26 August (in Texas) and you have not posted yet?! So many things to see, so little time to write signals a good trip! I can’t wait to hear all about it

Crappy internet access, great trip. Grabbing a couple of hours of sleep before a very early flight to Melbourne tomorrow. Almost out of room on the 8GB card in my camera.