April 2019

We left Nelson and headed south for Hwy 6 along the Buller River. The river, and the highway, run generally west through the Buller River Gorge. Originally a gold rush town, Murchison was almost completely destroyed by a huge earthquake in 1929, and we were going to explore the heart of that earthquake. We first…

The South island of New Zealand has a lot to offer. We struggled deciding what to see in the two weeks we allocated to explore this place. There are towering mountains that surround peaceful sounds in the south and hug the rugged western coastline. Those were our targets – we’d start in the north and…