We completed and celebrated our fiftieth shark conservation event this week by speaking at Charles Fleming Ryman’s retirement village in Waikenae, New Zealand. We had high hopes for this event and it was certainly memorable….but perhaps not for the reasons we expected it to be!
The residents at Ryman’s were all very welcoming but unfortunately the […]
It is with much gratitude and excitement that we would like to introduce you to our new campervan…Bertha!
We were sad to say goodbye to our Shark Mobile, who has accompanied us on many adventures in the South Island without complaint or mishap. We were also excited and very grateful for Wendekreisen Travel Ltd’s kind offer […]
After our busy schedule of events in Nelson, we decided it was time to take a week off and explore the remaining northern parts of the South Island that we had yet to visit. It is hard to believe that we have already spent three months travelling New Zealand and our week off was planned […]
It was seven weeks ago that we left Te Anau YHA where we’d put our time to good use booking plenty of events for the Nelson area. We were fortunate to be granted the same treatment by the wonderful YHA folks in Nelson for the fifteen events we had arranged up here. Our Wendekreisen Campervan […]
Another business has emerged to sponsor the work of Friends for Sharks. We met the Owner and CEO of Cinebags, Markus Davids in South Africa last year when he joined us as one of our customers for a few days of White Shark spotting and diving. He has only recently heard about what we’re doing […]
After reaching Nelson and catching up on our office work, we managed to squeeze in a brief trip to Abel Tasman and Kahurangi National Parks. We had been planning on a weekend of hiking these national parks, famed for their coastal views and clear blue waters, but it didn’t quite go to plan…
We spent our […]
I knew the West coast of New Zealand would be beautiful but I had no idea it would be so consistently gorgeous as the miles ticked by.
When we left Southland after our Forest & Bird event, I was sad to be saying goodbye to the southern hospitality and, more unusually, the pink silage bales surrounding […]
Our final event in Invercargill, New Zealand was with Forest and Bird Southland branch and we were really looking forward to this event. Our hosts Chris and Brian Rance were very welcoming and Chris showed us their own conservation project before our evening lecture at the Forest and Bird AGM. They have created their own […]
We also enjoyed two other day walks along different sections of the Kepler Track in Fjordland and, each time, the forest was slightly different and offered new views with rivers that rushed past us in a flurry of strong currents, ripples and cold blue water. Te Anau had received exceptionally high rainfall during our visit […]
