South Island adventure! to Murchison

the kids by the fire
had a campfire with our neighbors in the campsite, nice people! had a girl Kyle's age and she took the kids down the river swimming earlier that day. Emilie also joined us. great time!
Steve panning for gold. I got a few flakes, but no we didn't strike it rich!
the Buller River by our campsite. there is gold flakes everywhere! the kids swam down with the currents in here. had a blast!
and finally Steve!
then came Kyle and Maya!
Emma and me coming down the swing over the Buller Gorge
this little bird got this close to us! almost had him on my finger.
more of the Buller River- quite the hike! pretty
back on the river again. lots of little waterfalls all around
the barbeque boys!! we had 2 great nights of barbequeing together. Our last ones unil.............?
the happy kids - glad to be back together again!
Kyle teaching Emilie about the traps that were everywhere on our hike.
mom and daughter! what crazy girls !
the 3 girls re-united! Nathalie, Dionne, Marg
On the longest swing bridge in NZ - over the Buller river. very narrow bridge, but the Capilano Suspension bridge is higher and longer ( and a litter wider too!)
the Buller River! took the swing bridge over - went for a 2.5 hr hike! so beautiful!
We met up with O'Vive in Murchison on the South Island! Emilie and Kyle re-united!! they were so happy. This is the river we hiked to. very beautiful and felt good on our feet!
Steve and I on the ferry to the south island - we met up with Malachi on the same ferry, couldn't have planned it if we tried. Ferry is expensive!! $405 one way for us with the caravan, ( it only cost us an extra $120)
Cool town call "Bulls" - lover their humour with their name - sending postcards of this!
Mt ? on North Island. will have to look it up and tell you later- but its a volcano for sure!
Steve fixing our overheating problem! turns out is was just the rad cap, but they didn't have one in Rotorua so Steve managed to get some extra gaskets from other rad caps and that seems to be working!
our home on the road! ain't it cute!

Here are some of the photos - We are having a good time , lots of pictures and doing lots of things- mostly hikes and walks.