Once we decided to go to the Moeraki toka (it means Moeraki Boulders in Maori). The Moeraki Boulders are unusually spherical boulders. According to wikipedia, the boulders consist of mud, fine silt and clay, cemented by calcite. How they are formed, it is not yet very clear to scientists. One of the theories is that the core gets...
One day we got tickets to go on a scenic train trip on Dunedin Railways. All of my family (including me) like trains, so we were excited to go. The trains are slow and old-fashioned, and there are a lot of tunnels. The longest tunnel is 1 kilometer long! Also, the engineer always tells stories, you see a lot of animals AND once in a ...
On October 30, we went to Catlins Nature Reserve. First we decided to stop in Kaka Point to eat lunch and ice cream. When we finished eating we decided to go to Nugget Point, a place not far from Kaka Point. We went there to look for seals. There was a lighthouse on the top of the hill and we walked 900 meters to get there. It was a ...
The next day we had THE most amazing adventure in my life. We decided to go over the Franz Josef Glacier ON A HELICOPTER and land on it! We got picked up by the helicopter van and drove over to our helicopter, a Squirrel B3e. We learned that we must enter from the front of the helicopter, in order not to get hurt. When we already got...
One day we decided to go to Queenstown, a city on the west side of the South Island. For that we would need to drive for three and half hours. It was a long ride, but it was worth it. We came and saw that our house was overlooking a beautiful lake and a lot of mountains! Then we went to our beds and fell asleep. The next morning we w...
We came to New Zealand late at night. It was cold AND it was raining. The next day, luckily, it got warmer and it wasn’t raining. One of the first places that we went was Sandfly Bay. It is a bay with sea lions and penguins. On the way we saw a lot of sheep and beautiful scenery. When we came we needed to walk through a sheep p...
Australia was amazing. It was a shame to leave. We met a lot of wonderful people and we will be friends forever. We will definitely come back again. ...
Mom, Evan and I always went to Manly Beach, a nice beach with ice cream, food, lots of sand and sometimes tidal waves of water. To get there we took a big ferry that went right through the Sydney Harbor. We sailed right past the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and many other places. It was beautiful. When the weather w...
One day our best friend Sagar (mom’s colleague) took us to Blue Mountains National Park. Jane, Holly, and Sophie couldn’t come so Sagar, Zack, Levy and my family went. When we came we went on a cable car across the Jamison Valley. We saw the Three Sisters, three big rocks that were named with Aboriginal names. Then we went on the...
On Saturday, October 1st, Sagar, Jane, Zack, Levy, Holly and Sophie took us to the Featherdale Wildlife Park. It is a park full of Australian animals like the Kangaroo, Tassie Devil, Bilby and Ghost Bat. I also saw dingoes, a type of Australian prairie dog. I saw it it eat raw chicken and raw rabbit that the keepers brought. I also p...