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Bruce the blogger

Sydney Morning Herald journalist, Bruce Elder, spent sixty days travelling on and off New Zealand's beaten track in 2007. Bruce's 91 blog entries document his 150 different and memorable experiences throughout the country.

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New Zealand Blogs

What are travellers saying about New Zealand?

Browse these personal blogs for straight talking thoughts and opinions about our places, people and adventures. It’s an entertaining way to get some priceless information.

 

GreatOutdoors.com - Peter Potterfield

"Hello, this is GreatOutdoors.com editor Peter Potterfield. It's Springtime in New Zealand, a good time to head down for some hiking just as the snow begins to fly in North America. I'll be flying from Seattle to Los Angeles, and from there down to Auckland. It's a long flight, about 14 hours, but well worth it when you step off the plane into a Kiwi spring."

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Where have the days gone? A way to remember...

The whole country seems to me gentle and understated, and slightly offbeat (and I mean that in a very good way).

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The Kepler Track

Story of my five-day romance with the city of Te Anau and the Kepler Track, one of New Zealand’s nine Great Walks

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A Photo Tour of my Favourite Country, New Zealand

New Zealand, as most of you know (or if you don’t, now you do) that NZ is my absolute favourite country in the whole world.

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Heaphy Track, Kahurangi National Park

"After five days and nights camping on the Heaphy Track in Kahurangi National Park, all we can say is WOW--what a beautiful and varied landscape."

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Mountaineering in Venice

Leonhard Emmerling, has been blogging the installation of Judy Millar's exhibition (among other things).

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Nature on Otago Peninsula

What made the beach so special was that you could switch your attention from the penguins to the sea lions, as both were numerous and very active.

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Exploring New Zealand: Hawkes Bay vacation

The cape is the site of a thriving gannetry which has grown in numbers in the last few years ....

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Kia Ora, Aotearoa:Bluff

We left Queenstown with the purpose of fishing the Eglinton River, but took a little detour to the south tip of the South Island. Not much there but friendly people.

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