Well, i'd say its been a pretty nice little January so far. We just got into Wellington, the southernmost tip of the North island, and will likely spend a few days here before taking the ferry across. This is a very cool city. Right now its about 80, overcast with 130km gusts coming in over Wellington Harbor. Pretty impressive to see. The museum here allows overnight parking in the heart of the city for $10 so that's where we're sleeping tonight. We haven't had to pay to camp up for about a month so we'll cough it up for a couple nights and explore the city.
We pretty much just finished a 3day canoe trip down the Wanganui. We got to paddle 88km in a very beautiful, secluded river gorge. It was also at historically low levels which meant it felt like we were paddling against the river at times. It was good though and it was nice weather, hot and sunny.
Before this we spent a few days hiking in a volcanic area called Tongariro national park. This is where the Mt. Doom volcano was filmed for all you Ringmasters out there. We've seen a few LOTR sights along the way but none that were really anything special, except mt. doom I suppose. I hiked up Mt. Ruapehu, which actually erupted very recently. There was still lots of snow up there so I got to do some JH slides on the way down.
Weather has been awesome. Very little rain. Mostly sunny and clear in the upper 70s.
I just put up a bunch of pictures at my online picture dump. http://picasaweb.google.com/stearnr
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Hi Jess and Bob, You are totally more adventureous than me!! The pictures are beautiful!! Take Care.
Jessica! I'm so glad you guys are having a good time - the pictures are awesome. :) Be careful out there! Can't wait to talk to you when you get back! Love, Liz
Jess and Bob, great pictures. Everything sounds awesome.
I saw a commercial for Premier Urgent Care with a couple different pictures of you in it.
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