Wisdom Of The Fern Collective - South Island Tour
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@canefan said in Wisdom Of The Fern Collective - South Island Tour:
If you are able to drop the kids go for the chef's lunch at Amisfield near Arrowtown. Delish
Can recommend that as well. They do a great pinot noir.
Probably can cope with the kid's too, tractor outside for playing on, (wife eventually got me off it).I think Amisfield is Tom Tusher's? Used to be CEO of Levi jeans, owns Blanket Bay down the lake a bit. Seems like a good guy for a rich american.
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Well, going to Christchurch has probably ruined the trip (you do realise it is full of Cantabs?) but aside from that....
Find time while in Q'town to go out to Arrowtown. Ignore the overtly tourist aspects and it's a lovely place.
If going to Bluff then stop in Invercargill gardens and check out the best free attraction going at the Tuatara display. Dozens of the fuckers, from infants to really old. A stop at the Invercargill brewery for a flagon to take back.
Do the crown range and stop off at Wanaka lakeside for photo opportunities.
If doing the Lindis don't then miss the best parts by heading out to the coast at Omarama. Tekapo is beautiful but accomodation is crap and pricey. Either make the effort to head up to the Hermitage or if that causes problems I can recommend a night at Ohau lodge. Make sure you eat in as the food is great, they accomodate kids well and it is simply a friendly and stunning part of the country. Make sure you pick up some salmon and Ohau cheeses passing through.
If stopping in the Mackenzie county isn't good timing but you need a stopover then Geraldine has some good options (and an excellent local butcher down a side street). -
Thanks team ... so this is what I've picked up ...
- Don't take the kids. tough one,as this holiday is for hte kids before we relocate to UK
- Avoid Oamaru, go to Tekapo instead. Ok, done.
- We are able to drop the kids, so the Chef's lunch at Amisfield will work. Ok, done.
A good start of ideas there!
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In Nelson, your kids are doubtless the right age for Natureland (in Nelson) or Animal Farm (near Nelson).
http://www.animalfarm.co.nz/our-animals/
If it is a nice day, taking a boat trip into the Abel Ta$man National Park (from Kaiteriteri or Marahau) is always worthwhile.
Less adventurous, but more relaxing, is a trip to Tahunanui Beach - kids playgrounds etc.
Jester House for lunch is good with kids. Food is usually very good.
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In Queenstown you really should do the drive up to glenorchy - depending on how you think kids would go a trip on the dart river from glenorchy will surpass anything you get back in qt
Personally I'd go Greymouth to Nelson via Punakaiki and Westport and hope that the blow holes perform but if you do want a hot pool experi4ence why not Maruia instead of Hanmer - save you two hours driving
QT- Bluff return is going to be 6 hours of mostly boring driving - are you mad?
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Nelson ideas look good .. cheers and have locked them onto our ideas list.
I've never driven to Glenorchy - might give it a go. Dart river trips are looking rather pricey though. We had looked at via Westport, and that is not off the table yet. But I have read that the Hanmer is supposed to be excellent for the kids.
The bluff trip - yes, I guess, but I was born in Winton and for some reason, significant other really wants to go there and check it out ...
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@MajorRage said in Wisdom Of The Fern Collective - South Island Tour:
I was born in Winton and for some reason, significant other really wants to go there and check it out ...
I'm sure that she wants some explanation as to what happened.
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@MajorRage said in Wisdom Of The Fern Collective - South Island Tour:
@Snowy I don't know if she's going to find her answer there ...
A few nights with the WT rellies will be much more enlightening.
Poor girl.
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