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AUCKLAND TOURS – Coast to Coast Tours NEWS

Unique Auckland tours Highly Rated on Tripadvisor.
Escape Auckland city! All-inclusive countryside sightseeing tours and attractions, and our Auckland sheep farm.

Many of you will recall ‘Girlie’ (star lamb for 2011!!)
She was shorn recently, and here is the video.

COAST TO COAST TOURS SITEMAP

SITEMAP FOR COAST TO COAST TOURS AUCKLAND TOURS (home) …… CONTACT US …… GET 10% DISCOUNT AUCKLAND TOURS VIDEOS FAQ’s TOUR OPTIONS Auckland ULTIMATE tour Auckland COAST to COAST tour Auckland SHORE EXCURSIONS shore excursion availability Prime Minister Hon. John Key meets shore excursion group Exclusive (PRIVATE) tours Auckland Auckland wine tours Corporate group tours [...]

Auckland Shore Excursion availability timetable

Auckland Shore Excursion - Coast to Coast Tours

AUCKLAND SHORE EXCURSION TOUR Get your friends together… we give a FREE TOUR to the “organiser” of 6+ person groups   JUMP TO TIMETABLE     “MINI” Shore Excursion tour option (11.30am – 3.30pm) Pick-up very close to your boat …(-or Sky Tower)   REGULAR Shore Excursion tour option (9.15am – 4.15pm) Pick-up very close [...]

AUCKLAND TOURS FAQs

AUCKLAND TOURS FAQ’s Here are some Frequently Asked Questions. Have we have covered yours?…if not PLEASE send us an inquiry. Get your friends together… we give a FREE TOUR to the “organiser” of 6+ person groups   # Do you operate every day? – ULTIMATE TOUR: (operates 1 Oct – 30 April) and AUCKLAND TOURS [...]

A selection of Auckland Tours videos

Here are our AUCKLAND TOURS videos… Real-time ‘snippets’ from our everyday lives!! Here is a  wool baling demonstration… Here’s the 2011 New Year’s eve fireworks at the Auckland Harbour RELATED POSTS for extra information: Season’s Greetings 2010 Here is a sheep shearing demonstration… RELATED POSTS for extra information: Crutching sheep ::  Woolshed ::  NZ Sheep [...]

AUCKLAND TOURS: 2010 baby lambs

Auckland sheep farm and baby lambs

Lambing season has begun at Coast to Coast Tours Auckland sheep farm. We now have around 10 orphans…come and enjoy bottle-feeding them during your Auckland tour.

New Zealand SHEEP FARM in Auckland

sheep shearing demonstration

ALL of our Auckland tours include visiting our own **genuine** sheep farm and Homestead. You’ll enjoy a ‘hands-on’ with our pet sheep (and baby lambs born in July). Speak to real farmers and visit our woolshed to learn all about the New Zealand sheep & wool industry.
We are just 40 minutes from downtown Auckland!
Visit to our farm is ONLY by taking our tour. (We aren’t open to the public, that’s what makes your tour with us so unique).
Click to see a SHEEP SHEARING video [...]

FEIJOA FRUIT Season in New Zealand

FEIJOA FRUIT Season in New Zealand

The fabulous FEIJOA fruit A lovely way to harness the flavour of the Feijoa is to make jelly (‘clear’ jam). GET THE RECIPE HERE The FEIJOA is in season now in New Zealand. The feijoa is not native to New Zealand, (it originated in South America), but it’s a fruit tree that almost everybody had [...]

Night sky stars: Southern Cross Constellation

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Crux Australis, the ‘famous’ Southern Hemisphere star constellation. In New Zealand, this group of stars are visible during all the seasons (i.e. year round). They are not visible in the Northern Hemisphere, so consequently don’t have any Greek or Roman legends about them. However,there are many legends throughout the Pacific. The Maori name for Crux is ” Te Punga” – “the anchor”, as it is thought of as an anchor of Tama-rereti’s waka (canoe), symbolised by the Milky Way, where the Pointers are its rope. The Pointers are 2 stars nearby the Southern Cross [...]

Winter food for birds

Winter food for birds

MEALWORMS …Winter food for birds July 27 2009 For anyone caring for an insect-eating bird, the winter months are a hard time to find enough adequate food. During the summer, I had an abundance of cicadas (like a small locust) that I could catch out in the field (for free!!), but now that these have [...]

BIRDS at Coast to Coast Tours Auckland

BIRDS at Coast to Coast Tours Auckland

Thankfully, one has to have a Department of Conservation (DOC) permit if you want to keep endangered NZ Native birds in captivity, however, there is no law against keeping Australian birds in captivity in New Zealand. Breeding birds for the pet-bird industry, (especially for hand-raised birds), is quite a large business in New Zealand with [...]

Auckland Tours

AUCKLAND TOURS We’ve recently been featured by a new independent community based website with guides, reviews, help and info on Auckland Tours which is called Tours of Auckland. I noticed it because we started getting a load of visitors from them, so took a look. It’s packed with lots of information on various Auckland attractions [...]

Aucklands best attraction May ’08 – Apr ’10

Aucklands best attraction May ’08 – Apr ’10

AUCKLAND’S BEST ATTRACTION Coast to Coast Tours was rated Tripadvisor’s No1 ‘Thing to Do’ in Auckland MAY ’08 – APR ’10 For 24 months Coast to Coast Tours maintained the No1 position [-unsurpassed No1-] as Auckland’s best attraction. This has been out of almost 100 other Auckland activities & attractions. Awesome as this may be, [...]

Earth Hour 28 March 2009

Earth Hour 28 March 2009

EARTH HOUR 28 MARCH 2009 MARCH 28 2009 – EARTH HOUR (8.30PM LOCAL time) Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 and now has spread globally. The WWF (World Wildlife Fund) aim to reach a target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to the world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in [...]

Seasons Greetings ’08

Seasons Greetings ’08

SEASON’S GREETINGS ’08 DECEMBER 25th 2008 – “Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year” We have both our daughter’s (Mary & Emma) home and celebrated a quiet Christmas lunch all together. Thankfully the weather was fine and sunny. The next day Dec 26, (Boxing Day), we went to visit [...]