This walk had me singing the Dance Magic Dance song from the Labyrinth the whole way. “Hoodoo!? You do. Do What? Remind me of the babe. etc.” For some reason Marc didn’t seem impressed with my dancing about along to “you remind me of the babe.” The hoodoos trail is an easy-ish hike, and very accessibly from the center of Banff. The walk starts at a car park at Surprise Corner, and winds its way through pretty forest between the…
Johnston Canyon hike is one of the most popular walks in Banff National Park, Canada. I am normally not a big fan of hiking in a large crowd, but we had booked a cabin to stay the night in Johnston Canyon, and wandering up to the higher waterfalls only takes about an hour, so I thought this would be a good walk to stretch our legs after the 8.5 hour drive from Vancouver! We started quite late in the afternoon…
Sometimes plans are just not meant to be! We ended up on the gorgeous Waiheke Island on a whim, with virtually no planning! It was a lovely place to explore for a few hours with beautiful beaches, cool birds and quite a few wineries to sample! We only had a day (well, an evening and a day) in Auckland, so I had planned out a pretty epic itinerary for us. My original plan (which I still think sounds amaaazing) was do…
Bob’s Peak is a pretty, but super-easy hike and was our last walk on New Zealand’s South Island. *Sob* Queenstown is ridiculously beautiful! The town is surrounded by mountains and gorgeous blue lakes. The airport has to have some of the best take-off views of anywhere in the world. But…we had been so busy hiking our way around New Zealand, that we didn’t actually have much time in Queenstown. Even if we only have a few hours, we still fancied…