For our last day of fun and games around Cairns, we booked the Self-Guided Kuranda Day Trip with Train and
Month: June 2025
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
We booked a Full Day Reef Cruise and a ten-minute Helicopter Scenic Flight with a highly-rated, family-run operation called Down
CAIRNS
The flight from Brisbane to Cairns on Qantas took 2 hours and 20 minutes and cost $309 for two. The
BRISBANE
We left New Zealand with a heavy heart. What a wonderful country! It’s easy to see why so many people
WAITOMO CAVES
For our last few days in New Zealand, we decided to live adventurously. We booked the cargo plane at the
TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK
This is probably as good a time as any to say a little about what it’s like to drive around
HOBBITON
In 1998, movie director extraordinaire Sir Peter Jackson sent a trusted scout around the Waikato region of New Zealand to
TE AROHA AND ROTORUA
After Wellington Gardens, we should have known it had to go downhill, and I’m not talking about the road or
THE HAMILTON GARDENS
About an hour south of Auckland sits the city of Hamilton. Located on the banks of the Waikato River, it
WHANGAREI, WAIPU, AND MANGAWHAI HEADS
After our lovely stay in a converted barn at the Lupton Lodge, a farm that appeared to have been transported