A Day on D’Urville Island - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – Backpacker Guide New Zealand
Day 86: Today we are at D’Urville Island Wilderness Resort in Marlborough for some fishing at D’Urville Island and 4WD mayhem! Join us for the New Zealand adventure!
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This morning we wake up on D’Urville Island to the sound of New Zealand native birds. We see weka, tui, bellbird and more thriving here on D’Urville Island.
We are staying in the D’Urville Island Wilderness Resort which has some very affordable options for backpackers.
We love the pace of life on D’Urville Island, island life. We hang out with our hosts at the D’Urville Island Wilderness Resort, have breakfast, then one of our hosts offers to take us to a D’Urville Island lookout by 4WD. We’re in!
After an insane drive up to the top of D’Urville Island, we get some awesome views. We head back down the D’Urville Island Wilderness Resort and hop into a fishing boat for some fishing at D’Urville Island.
After catching some blue cod at D’Urville Island, we go see a seal colony before journeying to the French Pass Whirlpools. The French Pass Whirlpools are a bizarre sight seen from boat or for the lookout walk in French Pass.
Back on dry land, we are in French Pass about to take the French Pass Road back to Okiwi Bay.
What do you think of D’Urville Island? Would you stay overnight in D’Urville Island?
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Things to Do in Marlborough in 360 - New Zealand VR
See the awesome landscapes and things to do in Marlborough in 360 degrees in this VR video of Picton in New Zealand!
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Trying to figure out where to go in New Zealand? Check out Marlborough in 360 degrees in this virtual reality slideshow. These are the landscapes, sights and things to do in Marlborough in New Zealand presented in a 360 video of Marlborough, New Zealand. Watch in 4K for the best results.
See Marlborough Sounds in 360, Lochmara, wineries, D'Urville Island, French Pass and more captured with a VR camera.
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Driving The French Pass Road - Nelson, New Zealand
French Pass Road 2013 - :-)
Jump aboard for an early morning trip on part of the French Pass road. I make this trip many many times over the year when going fishing at Stephens Island or Durville Island. This is only 20 mintues of a two and a half hour trip from Nelson to French Pass but it gives you a little insight into this amazing piece of New Zealand.
The film starts at the top of the saddle where it opens up into farm land. The twisting narrow mainly single lane gravel road descends down to the French Pass village. On the left you will see the current basin waterway that feeds the famous French Pass shipping channel. This transit is well known for its strong current up to 8 knots and huge whirl pools.
Also to the left you will see Durville Island, it was named after the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville. With an area of approximately 58 square miles (150 km2), it is the eighth-largest island of New Zealand, and has around 52 permanent residents.
On the right you will see glimpses of the Marlborough Sounds with many islands and fiords it is well worth a trip to see, and the fishing is excellent
There were no animals harmed in the making of this film but the silly little lamb that gate crashed the filming around minute 17 did have a funny look on its face where he suddenly stopped.
Landing Zodiac, Devil Island, James Ross Island group, Antarctica, South Pole
Devil Island is a 128 ha, ice-free island about 2 km long, in the James Ross Island group near the north-eastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It lies in a small cove 1 km north of Vega Island, east of the Trinity Peninsula. It is characterised by several low hills rising to a maximum height of about 150 m.. The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 15,000 pairs of Adélie Penguins. Other birds recorded as nesting there include Brown Skuas and Snow Petrels. The Adélie Penguin is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast. They are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds, as are the Emperor Penguin, the South Polar Skua, the Wilson's Storm Petrel, the Snow Petrel, and the Antarctic Petrel. In 1840, French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adèle. The Adélie Penguin is one of three species in the genus Pygoscelis. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence suggests the genus split from other penguins around 38 million years ago, about 2 million years after the ancestors of the genus Aptenodytes. In turn, the Adélie penguins split off from the other members of the genus around 19 million years ago. There are 38 colonies of Adélie penguins, and there are over 5 million Adélies in the Ross Sea region. Ross Island supports a colony of approximately half a million Adélies. The Adélie penguins breed from October to February on shores around the Antarctic continent. Adélies build rough nests of stones. Two eggs are laid, these are incubated for 32 to 34 days by the parents taking turns (shifts typically last for 12 days). The chicks remain in the nest for 22 days before joining crèches. The chicks moult into their juvenile plumage and go out to sea after 50 to 60 days. Adélie penguins live in groups called colonies. Around 160,000 Adélie penguins live at Cape Bird, but ecologists are predicting as many as 70 percent of them could be wiped out due to sea loss. These penguins are mid-sized, being 46 to 75 cm (18 to 30 in) in length and 3.6 to 6 kg (7.9 to 13 lb) in weight. Distinctive marks are the white ring surrounding the eye and the feathers at the base of the bill. These long feathers hide most of the red bill. The tail is a little longer than other penguins' tails. The appearance looks somewhat like a tuxedo. They are a little smaller than other penguin species. Their appearance is closest to the stereotypical image of penguins as mostly black with a white belly. Adélie penguins can swim up to 45 miles per hour (72 km/h). Adélie penguins are preyed on by leopard seals, skua, and occasionally, orcas. Like all penguins, the Adélie is highly social, foraging and nesting in groups. They are also very aggressive to other penguins that steal stones from their nest. Specifics of their behaviour were documented extensively by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a survivor of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful final journey to the South Pole) in his book The Worst Journey in the World. Cherry-Garrard noted: They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children or like old men, full of their own importance. Certain displays of their selfishness were commented upon by George Murray Levick, a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott on his ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910, during his surveying of penguins in the Antarctic: At the place where they most often went in [the water], a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink. When they had succeeded in pushing one of their number over, all would crane their necks over the edge, and when they saw the pioneer safe in the water, the rest followed. It was observed how the penguin's intrigue could also put them in harm's way, which Scott found a particular nuisance: The great trouble with has been due to the fatuous conduct of the penguins. Groups of these have been constantly leaping on to our ice floe. From the moment of landing on their feet their whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a pig-headed disregard for their own safety. They waddle forward, poking their heads to and fro in their usually absurd way, in spite of a string of howling dogs straining to get at them. Hulloa! they seem to say, here's a game -- what do all you ridiculous things want? And they come a few steps nearer. The dogs make a rush as far as their harness or leashes allow. The penguins are not daunted in the least, but their ruffs go up and they squawk with semblance of anger.
Hiking in Okiwi Bay, Marlborough - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – Backpacker Guide New Zealand
Day 84: Today we are hiking in Okiwi Bay by doing the Goat Hill Track. Come and join today’s activity out of our 365 Days: 365 Activities in New Zealand!
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Today we are in Okiwi Bay, an off-the-beaten-track location in Marlborough! To see the awesome views of Okiwi Bay in the Marlborough Region, we are going to be doing some hiking in Okiwi Bay!
Thanks to a recommendation from the Okiwi Bay Holiday Park, we hike the Goat Hill Track in Okiwi Bay. It’s a one way track you can take from Okiwi Bay though native New Zealand forest up to an awesome lookout.
The Goat Hill Track is full of New Zealand wildlife. This hiking track in Okiwi Bay takes about one hour to complete one way and can either be started in Okiwi Bay town or from the road into Okiwi Bay.
Hiking in Okiwi Bay, Marlborough, is a great way to immerse yourself in the surroundings of New Zealand and Marlborough.
So what do you think of Hiking in Okiwi Bay? Would you stop by Okiwi Bay for some hikes?
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