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 11, 2011 | New Zealand-2011
Our Fantasy group took an all day bus trip to the farthest north point of NZ today. We rode on a four wheel drive bus that drove thru the waves of the Tasman Sea on Ninety Mile Beach. We reached speeds over 100 KPH! That’s over 60 MPH! We sand surfed and dug...
by Jim and Gisela Spires | Apr 10, 2011 | New Zealand-2011
We arrived in Auckland, returned our motor homes, and transferred to a great hotel. After getting a good rest, we headed out on a bus excursion of the city which includes a tour of the outstanding War Memorial Museum . This museum is so large and full of so many...
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...