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New Zealand trip
« on: May 09, 2016, 06:33:50 PM »
I am in New Zealand right now on my honeymoon and decided to start a thread on it. So far we have been having a blast. (Don't worry, I'll be going hunting in a few days so that's why I put it Here. We decided to take a week in queenstown before the hunt. This place is awesome!

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2016, 06:36:56 PM »
We took a steamship cruise across lake waputipo to a sheep farm and they also had a small red deer herd. Fed some critters and saw a demonstration of sheep shearing for merino wool. The mountains around this place are amazing! Very tall and steep and rugged.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2016, 06:41:19 PM »
Yesterday we took a bus out to Milford sound for a boat cruise. The road out there was awesome. Saw a lot of deer and sheep farms in the country. The mountain road was pretty intense also. One section was a tunnel almost a mile long! The sound was like nothing I've ever seen! Sheer cliffs thousands of feet high!

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2016, 06:42:08 PM »
I'll keep posting here as the trip continues. The wife takes much more and better pics so I'll get some of hers and post also.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2016, 07:07:25 PM »
Wow what a trip. Tagging along for an epic journey.
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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2016, 07:47:58 PM »
Pics look good love the bull, ox or whatever it is... Have a good time!! 

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2016, 07:56:47 PM »
Tagging along I want to pull the trigger on this trip and Africa sometime in my life. Congratulations!

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2016, 08:31:49 PM »
Congrats buddy!  Have a good trip

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2016, 08:42:39 PM »
Awesome!

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2016, 08:46:10 PM »
Food!
I don't think they can make bad food here! It's all amazing!
Devils burger, and garlic fries

Bobs weigh for breakfast

World famous fergburger! Well worth the hour wait for a burger

Breakfast, southern fried chicken and waffles with bacon and jalapeño chutney

Lamb stew and roast lamb rump



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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2016, 08:47:44 PM »
I almost forgot! 16 oz red bulls are like $2 here too!
That may be the best part!

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2016, 08:52:31 PM »
Another couple pictures I really like.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2016, 08:53:27 PM »
You are in New Zealand, on your honeymoon and you are going hunting...Does she have a sister?

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2016, 09:14:02 PM »
No sister... Sorry Mac.  :chuckle:

This rock looked like a skull to me. Picture doesn't do it justice. The rocks in the mouth are basketball size or bigger!

And another pic of the tree in the first post for some size scale.

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Re: New Zealand trip
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2016, 09:19:47 PM »
Glad to see Jamie is baiting your critters for the hunt :chuckle:
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