Kaikoura Christmas

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@foxro48 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Really enjoyed Xmas Video. Well done on your choice of gifts for the kids. You really are very practical parents. Great to see. Oh Toby. Your new lure. What a shame the fish got away. All the best for 2024. Happy travels.🌞🤗🌞🌞

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Toby's so keen on catching fish, he'll often happily head to the river or to the beach for a fish on his own even. We sure did have a great Christmas I think I'm still trying to lose some extra pounds I gained lol... Hope you had a great Christmas.

@davekerr8133 10 ай бұрын

Magic memories. It's so good to see kids with big smiles on their faces. 😊

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Oh yea lots of laughing going on, the kids were all very excited to spend time together, they have basically grown up together and then we up and left in a caravan.

@helendrysdale6339 8 ай бұрын

I loved Kaikoura. I swam with the dolphins (bucket list) and was totally blown away by the experience that I am going back next year to do it again.

@leopardsgowild 8 ай бұрын

Oh thats so cool, lots to do in kaikoura, we really loved it there. I reckon it's a place I could live in, small town vibes, loads to do in the great outdoors, and plenty of wildlife.

@curiouskiwi9352 10 ай бұрын

Hello Leopard family. My hubby and I bought a caravan right before Christmas, then we both caught covid over NY. We have very much been enjoying your channel and can't wait to get away. Thank you for inspiring us.

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

These are my favourite type of comments, you'll love caravan adventures so much fun. I love parking up somewhere really remote and enjoying a hot shower, diesel heater, cold drinks, what ever you want... I'm glad we've offered some inspiration 🙌

@angelamcdougall983 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your Christmas day it looks like everyone had an awesome time and plenty of food

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Oh yes we were all very full... Hope you had a great day as well.

@michaelaotearoa3839 10 ай бұрын

A tip for keeping mussel on your hook. Empty out used tea bags and fill with mussel meat, they should stay on your hook.

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Cheers for the tip mate.... mussells makes pretty good bait.

@ihsanaabdulmuhusin4026 5 ай бұрын

❤

@leopardsgowild 5 ай бұрын

thanks

@daniel-6449 10 ай бұрын

Your kids are having an amazing life experience.

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Oh yes I think they know it... if it ends, they won't know what hit them when they are in school 5 days a week and have to get up every morning for it lol...

@Teresa-mu4kw 10 ай бұрын

Kia Ora Whānau, so glad that your two whānau all got to be together, happy new years and merry Christmas and best wishes for a 2024🎉🎉🎉Arohanui nō Teresa ❤

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Teresa, was so cool seeing the Bridons again, you'll see them in the next few videos as well they came down for 3 weeks which the kids all loved despite a few arguments after some late nights and hot days playing together. Hope your well.

@lyndamorrissey6646 10 ай бұрын

Hello new to your channel .I found it interesting showing Robbins Cove or beach. In all my years living in NZ I had only flown into Dunedin for my girls wedding, that now many years have past and no longer living in NZ. Seeing the south island with your family is good to my eyes

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

It's like exploring a new country coming down to the South Island, so beautiful down here, all the areas are so unique. What country are you in currently?

@RadRoadAdventures 10 ай бұрын

We just had one of those cheap legs of lamb we all purchased prior to Christmas! Watching all your food made me feel extra full, yummy. What a neat day you had! Jade and Riley, I enjoyed the weather report 😂 and your Dad (and Mum) is cool

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

we got some off the off cuts still from our lamb which are for curries, it's just been to hot to make a curry lol... My favourite part of this video is the kids telling me the weather isn't cool lol, cool snap shot of them.

@DrChristineMackenzie 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas. Gotta love kiakoura coast. I recognise most bits as done that road many times to Chch in past but not recent. Thanks for the memories. Nice to see you in our back yard for a change. If want to connect contact Picton Vet. I bought my first caravan (same as traveling K's) 2 months ago, for an escape. Still learning but love it. Have fun.

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas it's a great part of new Zealand having these amazing mountains so close to the ocean... Hopefully we'll be back down in winter and we can see them covered in snow. Happy travels enjoy your new caravan.

@linley-jane7878 10 ай бұрын

Someone was trying to makd up for "slipped" words. 😆 Glad to see toj had a good Christmas.

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

No slipped words here, more like me pressing stop on the record button and then realizing there was a classic moment approaching and recording again...

@PentaxLife 10 ай бұрын

Great video, Marj has a dish that she makes for Christmas. It's called monkey bread Pillsbury dough. You've cut it up in the cubes. Brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins and butter Cooked in a bunt Pan. it is fantastic. Yeah, Mike, you're cool.LOL

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Yum do you guys do trifle in Canada, thats a common Christmas dessert here in NZ... it's sponge cake with Custard, fruit salad and whipped cream, so yum. Hope your enjoying some more warm weather in Mexico

@PentaxLife 10 ай бұрын

@leopardsgowild Marj's mom makes that. The weather hasn't changed plus 27 They say that it's gonna get a little bit warmer yet.

@iamie153 10 ай бұрын

It seems you were unknowingly continuing to following us around. :-) Cathie and I did part of the walk along the top that you ran, then came down a track and then walked back to the carpark. Highly recommend that to all visitors. There was a heron on the track at the top who nabbed a lizard from the long grass while we watch and waited. There are also Dotterels down among the seals. We did an evening walk west from the town carpark. It was getting dark and I wasn't sure where we could get back across the railway line, but there is a crossing at the end of the road by the New World. In the half-dark, without a torch, I nearly stumbled into a group of Dotterels which I think are nesting in the shingle along there. We just back tracked towards the water a bit until we got nearer the exit. We also got rained on there. :-) Great video. Christmas traditions? Turkey - not something you could do on the road very easily unless you had a Kettle BBQ. Christmas Pudding, followed by a snooze and or a walk. :-)

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

oh did you spend Christmas in Kaikoura as well??? I love some trifle for Christmas pud, but that was just going to be a bit to much... We def ate like kings and queens that day. The pennisula walk sure is a good one especially when you have eaten to much.

@iamie153 10 ай бұрын

@@leopardsgowildNo, we scuttled all the way back to HB in a day on 16th. We had family arriving a few days after that.

@user-le7ld5sg2d 10 ай бұрын

Loved your video and Christmas dinner! Kiakoura is an awesome place thanks for another great video!

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

yea we thought it was a great place to go back to with our friends, we had a great time there. Hope you had a yum christmas dinner too.

@TheLollygirl69 10 ай бұрын

We lived in Kaikoura (during quakes), great memories watching this. Remembered the nerve wrecking drive between CHCH n KK when you had 2 card over taking on the bense 🙄

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

it's a pretty stunning drive those roads must have been crazy after the quakes seeing the slips and damage over the roads was pretty crazy aye... Kaikoura is a great spot for sure.

@kathysmith8386 10 ай бұрын

Fun video again ……

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, was a fun Christmas. Hope you had a good one as well.

@CHillAdventures 10 ай бұрын

yeeeew!!! epic vid, xmas vibes!!!! glad u guys had a good 1!!! cant wait for the next vid!! cheers leopardz!

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Cam, hope your keeping warm and the ice has melted off you, yikes that surfing must have been cold.

@CHillAdventures 10 ай бұрын

@@leopardsgowild 🌊💨🥶❤️🤙✌️

@hopaea7 10 ай бұрын

Damn, where y'all been??? Left us hanging

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Do you follow us on Facebook and Instagram??? Yes you do I see 👀 those likes 👍

@jezthomas4402 10 ай бұрын

Top video as always Leopards! Good idea to do a u-turn and leave Kaiteriteri; I was there for a couple of nights to run some of the Abel Tasman track just after NYE and it was mental packed! Not too busy on the tracks though ;-) Good to see you going over the 5K subscribers; as I'm not self-contained I've been stopping at the Top 10s and have been passing on lots of local tips to all the European travellers, and when I've talked for longer than I should I just tell them to check out your channel, so expect a few more subscribers. Seriously though, if you could somehow tap into that community then your numbers would rocket, plus hundreds of travellers would discover more of the good stuff. Shame I didn't quite manage to catchup with you guys in Nelson Lakes; timing just didn't work; ended up heading straight to Hanmer then spending 2 days in bed real sick, and having to sail back to Kāpiti early :-/ Ah well, had a great 3 weeks adventure, catch you on the next one maybe!

@brewswithviews 10 ай бұрын

MERRY CHRISTMAS.......we prefer to get experiences for Christmas, kids have enough stuff. They still have some presents but nowhere near what they used to have. I got the girls a poo like that a few years ago haha. Strange seeing a christmas in the summer.

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Thats they way to go alright, experiences, kids will generally still get gifts from grandparents and stuff, but like you say, kids have so much stuff these days, was a nightmare when we were moving out of our house, we had boxes of kids toys most of it was handed down from friends, but amazing how your house can get filled up.

@michaelrowe7749 10 ай бұрын

Good to see that you had a great Christmas … enjoying you ‘clips’ … keep the good work!

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Cheers team Dragon, hope you lot had a great Christmas with the Fam.

@Smurfatnz 10 ай бұрын

Our Christmas was on a cruise liner fron Sydney to Noumea

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Oh wow, that sounds nice, did you have a nice trip? How was the weather?

@mrpaisleyshirt 10 ай бұрын

Gee, I guess there's a first time for everything huh! 8:04 🤣

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Good old cromwell paper plus is where we brought this so it's been in the caravan for a while, Jade thought it was too good to be true, it turned up in quite a few spots over our camping trip, including cups and bowls lol..

@gallichantrucklifenz 10 ай бұрын

Loved this episode (you know why haha😂). What a great second Kaikoura experience for you guys. That horrible cloud cover can hang around a lot with blue sky to the west. You could always walk out at the seal colony pre-earthquake but there was def still good uplift there. The seals tend to be further out now but still come right up and lie on the footpaths by the carpark 🙂

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Such a cool spot, that cloud was pretty annoying, we were waiting for the sun to pump, although it probably would have been to hot if it was out... Good to know about the uplift, what a crazy thing to take place aye... I remember learning about the uplift in Napier which was massive, there used to be tidal islands that are now housing, sports fields and businesses.

@gallichantrucklifenz 10 ай бұрын

@@leopardsgowild wow, that’s crazy! We went through Eskdale yesterday and I can’t believe how much damage is still there…

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

Its very sad, I feel like I spent a lot of time there as a kid swimming in the safe river, that left the place looking like a bomb went off... @@gallichantrucklifenz

@tinyhousehybrid5210 10 ай бұрын

Merry Xmas guys thanks for showing us that you do get rain sometimes! 😂

@leopardsgowild 10 ай бұрын

lol, the rain has been pretty minimal... I'm hoping it stays like that... I guess we do have the option of moving our house somewhere better if it's gonna be bad for a while. Merry Christmas.