From south to north by kayak, bike and foot

January 2014

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January 2014

Early risers in Bligh Sound. Photo: Supplied
A childhood spent in the outdoors leads to a grand 2000km South Island adventure for Ginney Deavoll When I was a teenager, my bedroom walls were covered in pictures I’d cut out of magazines: mountains and seascapes, trampers on razor sharp ridge lines, climbers scaling impossible faces, hidden river gorges and rare wildlife. My friends’ […]
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