Sadly we had to leave New Zealand today. We're flying back to Zürich and back to work. It's a sad fact of life that somehow this galavanting has to be paid for.
For me the highlights of the time in New Zealand were seeing the Blue Penguins in Oamaru, the wine tour of Central Otago with Appellation Central and seeing the White Heron Sanctuary at Whataroa.
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Mark Sukhija is a travel and wine blogger, photographer, tourism researcher, hat-touting, white-shirt-wearing, New Zealand fantatic and eclipse chaser. Aside from at least annual visits to New Zealand, Mark has seen eclipses in South Australia (2002), Libya (2006), China (2009) and Queensland (2012). After twelve years in Switzerland, Mark moved back to London in 2012. You can follow Mark on Twitter or Facebook