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		<title>A four-day trip south</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 05:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original plan was to leave Beaconstone on April 9, hook up with my friends Wade and Lisa LeBlanc from Hong Kong/Nova Scotia in the tourist-swamped glacier town of Franz Josef, and then return to Beaconstone on April 15 for two more weeks of WWoofing.
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		<title>And…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   (l-r) Our first afternoon at Beaconstone, Drew strumming his guitar in the lounge; Miner’s Brewery tasting tour in Westport, the closet town to Beaconstone…Good Bastard beer; Drew and his surf instructor Mark heading out at Tauranga Bay; Drew and our friend Grae Stevens at Tauranga Bay

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		<title>Paparoa National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   (l-r): The beach at the mouth of the Fox River; exposed karst, typical of the Paparoa landscape; Drew, mid-way through the Fox River crossing; the Ballroom Overhang, a popular rock bivy which they say can accommodate up to one hundred campers; Kirk crossing the Fox River (we smartened up and did the Kiwi thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkcounty.wordpress.com&blog=383187&post=188&subd=kirkcounty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kahurangi National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We experienced New Zealand’s newest and largest national park in two visits: the limestone formations of the Oparara Basin (l-r: Kirk entering the Moria Gate Arch; Moria Gate Arch from the inside) and a two-day hike along the Heaphy Track, from the trailhead at the sandfly-infested Kohaihai river to the Heaphy Hut (l-r: Kohaihai bridge; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkcounty.wordpress.com&blog=383187&post=178&subd=kirkcounty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Farewell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northernmost point of the South Island – it is further north than the city of Wellington on the North Island. It was one of the windiest days we’ve experienced in New Ziwi. We’d visited the sand dune wonderland of Wharariki Beach before Cape Farewell but the wind blasted sand into our eyes and noses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkcounty.wordpress.com&blog=383187&post=170&subd=kirkcounty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, the magic of the iPod</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend suggested we spend less time and money in upkeeping our blog, and more time exploring and experiencing. I couldn’t agree more. That’s why we prep our photos and blog comments in our down time on my little iBook. We save the blog comments in Word format and the small photo files to Drew’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkcounty.wordpress.com&blog=383187&post=168&subd=kirkcounty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 mm per hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirsty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The forecast was for strong westerlies and 25 millimetres of rain PER HOUR. It wasn&#8217;t enough to stop us from exploring Franz Josef glacier. It was wet, wet, wet but we were still awed by walking on ice, slipping through crevices and magic of hiking in such a different element. Both Franz Josef and Fox [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkcounty.wordpress.com&blog=383187&post=167&subd=kirkcounty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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