This year, having not seen @laura.maryg family and friends since the beginning of the pandemic - it was about time we flew across the globe to spend nearly 2 months in Edmonton- and boy did summer turn it on!
One week we spent exploring all that southern @travelalberta has to offer, in particular the Badlands in Dinosaur Provincial Park 🦖
2.5 hours east of Calgary you’ll find yourself amongst the hoodoos and rattlesnakes 🐍
Did you know this region of Alberta has one of the highest concentration of dinosaur fossils found anywhere in the world?!
Have you ever heard of this place? The landscape reminds us of something from another planet!
@travelalberta
One of the most beautiful places we visited, @glenorchynz is less than an hours drive from @queenstownnz and you get views like this!
Don’t know why we haven’t visited New Zealand more but it pays being 4 hours from incredible mountains 🏔
If you want to know more about the best things to do when your in Queenstown next, check out the link in our story !
It may not quite be Winter time in New Zealand right now but how can you not share these beautiful photos?
No joke, the morning before this photo was taken there was no snow on the ground at all. Waking up to this winter wonderland was a lovely surprise!
Not to mention South Island received the most snow fall in almost a decade the week we were there , how crazy!
The mountains are so big they don’t fit in the IG frame! Just a couple of newly engaged travellers sitting on the banks of Lake Wakatipu on the way to Glenorchy
Moody mornings driving through Fiordland National park on the road from @milfordsoundlodge
A lot of the valleys here were carved by glaciers many years ago, now covered in bright tussock grass surrounded by the fiords of Aotearoa
The only way to enjoy your morning cuppa ☕️🗻 @zorali #thejourneycalls
An evening spent with @real.newzealand on board a Milford Sound cruise ship. Probably the most stunning place we’ve ever been.
Milford sound is technically a fiord, given it was carved by glaciers many years ago. It leads out to the Tasman Sea and is home to the worlds only alpine parrot, New Zealand fur seals as well as the occasional dolphins and whales 🙂
Have you visited the 8th wonder of the world in Fiordland national park?
Aotearoa is so bloody special and uniquely beautiful it’s hard to compare- and we’re already booking out the calendar to return 🙏
Shout out to @real.newzealand and @milfordsoundlodge for an epic cruise and beautiful night stay and a chocolate covered table for our engagement 🤗❤️
Still reeling from our trip to Aotearoa, so many incredible places and memories we made 💍 ❤️
Still can’t over how beautiful Fiordland National park is - Doubtful sound is definitely on the cards for the next visit!
Stay tuned for a new blog post on ‘the best things to do in Queenstown’ coming soon 🤫
7 years in the making 🇨🇦 🇦🇺
We debated sharing this moment from our New Zealand trip here or keeping it personal, however we thought we would share the magic of that day with whomever wanted to smile a bit 🙂
I set up the tripod as I normally do to take photos of ourselves, only this time Laura didn’t know that I would be using it to record the moment we got engaged.
It worked out so well, she had no clue at all what was about to happen. She had always wanted to be proposed to near water, so I think I did a good job with being at the 8th wonder of the world, near a waterfall, the fiords of Milford Sound, and a crescent moon rising above the mountain (hard to see above the fiord )
Finallyyy getting around to sharing photos and videos from our time here in Aotearoa so far - to say we’ve found our new favourite country is, accurate!
The first week we spent most of it in #fiordlandnationalpark exploring Milford sounds and the surrounding regions and having friendly chats with a couple of cheeky Kea’s. Is New Zealand not your favourite travel destination?
📍 Fiordlands has the wettest climate in all of NZ
- is listed unofficially as the 8th wonder of the world and a UNESCO world heritage site Te Wāhipounamu
- the landscape changes from greenstone fiords to over 10,000 waterfalls cascading down the mountain side!
🚙 To get here you will first have to take the Southern scenic route from Queenstown for 2.5 hours to Te Anau, and onwards through to Milford along the Milford highway for another 2 hours or so.
Met in Fiji… engaged in New Zealand 💍💕