The 'research roadie' so far has been through places I am well familiar with. Many a more minor road trip and camping extravaganza has taken place in the Far North and twelve great years were spent in the 'super' city of Auckland. The next leg of the journey is 54 days of going through areas I am almost completely unfamiliar with, and starts tomorrow.
The traverse of the west coast of the north island will precede a week in the windy city....and a ferry ride will then take me to the mainland in time for next month. Two weeks in the top of the south island will introduce me to one of the wine-making capitals of the world and all that that entails. A short deviation to Farewell Spit (predictable for a twitcher) is planned before heading south.
The bottom of the south promises the wildest of the weather and terrain and it's my hope to take a teensy break to beautiful Stewart Island. Such a protracted programme of field work is bound to see me earn a day or two away from the computer surely...! Its a huge programme and I only avoid fretting by thinking about it one region at a time.
Epic....here goes....
(image from www.teara.govt.nz)
I like how you refer to the South Island as the mainland as if the North Island is some outlying, insignificant little island in the middle of nowhere. Which come to think of it, our whole counry is... minus perhaps the insiginificant :p
ReplyDeleteWell it is colloquially referred to as such heehee :D We are tiny but mighty ;-)
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