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New Zealand Waters

An Oyster Farm Tour on the Shuckle Ferry

 As avid seafood fans, we’ve always dreamt of having fresh oysters right off the seabed. Last weekend, our dreams came true onboard the Shuckle Ferry when we went on NZ’s only oyster farm tour. Steering our little boat through the Mahurangi Harbour was Phil, with 13 years of experience working on a superyacht around the […]

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Mountains New Zealand

A guide to Routeburn Track – New Zealand Great Walk

After confirming our trip to New Zealand, at the top of our list was to experience one of its Great Walks in the Southern Alps – either the Milford, Kepler or Routeburn Track. All three are incredibly popular and even though we had been 6 months ahead, the huts for Milford were full and almost […]

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Mountains New Zealand

3 weeks in New Zealand (South Island): Our itinerary

If you were to win a pair of tickets to anywhere in the world, where would you go? That was the million-dollar question (okay, more like three-thousand-dollar question) after winning the Amex Travel Hacks contest in June 2016. Just by simply submitting my ‘top 3 travel hacks’ on a Facebook contest page, I had won […]