I know it has been almost three weeks since either Bernadette or I have posted on this blog, but that doesn't mean we've been sitting in front of the fire knitting. We've been to New Zealand. What a fabulous country. The Kiwis are a friendly bunch and we were met everywhere with "Kia ora." This means welcome and we were well and truly welcomed to New Zealand.
New Zealand was the last large landmass to be settled by humans. Before the Maori people arrived about 1000 years ago, the only mammal in New Zealand was a tiny bat. Abel Tasman. a Ditch explorer, spotted the island in 1642, but it was another 120 years before Lt. James Cook of the British Royal Navy re-discovered the two large islands that are now home to 4.3 million people.
New Zealand holds magnificent mountains, geothermal pools, geysers, active volcanoes, beautiful streams and scenery that is green beyond belief. Those crazy Kiwis are the movers and shakers of the adventure travel world.
We'll be posting blogs telling you the spectacular things we saw and the crazy things we did.
Submitted by Janet Webb Farnsworth, writer and Bernadette Heath, photographer and writer for "Grandma Needs a Four-Wheel Drive, Adventure Travel for Seniors." web page: www.grandmaneedsafour-wheeldrive.com
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