Stauchy Blog

We’ve been in New Zealand now for about a month.  We’re currently in the Bay of Islands, getting ready for a couple of days of sailing.  During our spare time we’ve been trying to catch things up through leaving Pole, so once again we’re a month behind.  Luckily, we’ve already been to New Zealand, and we already have an action-packed website all about that trip.  Have a look at http://www.stauchy.net/2004_NZ for a bunch of New Zealand travel goodness!

If you’re curious as to where we’ve been over the past month, check out this calendar: http://www.stauchy.net/RTW/0711.html and it shows where we’ve been on what day.  A lot of the places you can read about from our previous trip, but there’s a few things that we’ve done that we didn’t do before, so we’ll write a few blogs about those things: The “Little Blues” (penguins) at Oamaru, the Milford Track, Nelson Lakes/Abel Tasman, the Tongiriro Crossing, and the Northland (including the Bay of Islands where we are now).  Hopefully we’ll also have some pictures up in the gallery soon.  Until then, thanks for sticking with our blog, and we look forward to sharing our adventures with you!

Here’s a few pictures from the parts that we won’t be blogging about specifically (i.e. we blogged about them before):

 (Us at Hooker Lake in front of Mt. Cook)

     (Us at the top of the Bealy Spur Track near Arthurs Pass, and in the hut with Janelle)

 (Sitting on the shores of Lake Wanaka in the town of Wanaka, one of our favorite places)

-JRS