by Gisela Spires | Apr 25, 2011 | Outback-2011, Video
With sadness, we have turned in our motorhomes in Alice Springs and flew back to Sydney to end this exciting segment of our 63 day tour. Can’t believe its been 63 days in New Zealand, Australia and the awesome Outback! Our last group function took place at the...
by Jim and Gisela Spires | Apr 22, 2011 | New Zealand-2011, Video
Today on an excursion to the countryside, our Fantasy group steams across beautiful Lake Wakatipu aboard the vintage TSS Earnslaw. We learn from the crew that this ship was built in 1912 and is the last coal burning passenger steam ship in the southern...
by Jim and Gisela Spires | Apr 16, 2011 | New Zealand-2011, Video
It has been raining steady for the past few days. We are on our way to Taupo on New Zealand’s North Island. This part of New Zealand is hilly and one popular sight for motorist is the beautiful Waipunga Falls. We are delighted with a abundance of water flowing down...
by Jim and Gisela Spires | Apr 11, 2011 | New Zealand-2011, Video
Our group had a ball sand surfing on the huge dunes at Ninety Mile Beach. We had a gorgeous, sunny day as our four wheel drive bus flew along the edge of the sparkling water of the Tasman Sea. After a BBQ lunch we drove out to the northern most point of NZ where we...
by Jim and Gisela Spires | Apr 9, 2011 | New Zealand-2011, Video
Our last stop of our tour in Auckland is at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World. We rode on a moving sidewalk thru a huge fish tank with sharks swimming all around and over the top of us! My favorite part of the tour is when we board a snow coach and enter a...
by Jim and Gisela Spires | Apr 9, 2011 | New Zealand-2011, Video
We had a glorious sunny day for our tour in Auckland. We started the day off with breakfast at the top of the sky tower above the clouds like in an air plane. Our first stop was at Mount Eden which is a dormant volcano crater above the city. Of course dormant just...
