SHOULD YOU VISIT THIS PLACE? Riverton, Orepuki Gemstone Beach, Cosy Nook | New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@parkiwi4787]

If you're coming back through Christchurch let me know if you'd like a meal. I'm living with my 89 uear old mum at present. She still is a great cook and like me loves meeting great people like you. There's a spare bed and a couch and we'd love yo chat. I once had the biggest and best Thai restaurant in Christchurch and believe me I loved spending my time with people from all over the planet. They may think differently. Cheers Franjo.

[@fozzienz7616]

Hi Glen and Mado I live north of christchurch today I was driving into town and here were you guys heading north turning into main north road I waved but you did not see me but there was a lot of traffic Glen was driving so just concentrating but you did have a smile on your face

[@GlenAndMado]

That’s a shame! We’re leaving Christchurch tomorrow and will be sad to leave :(

[@beesknees7138]

Have you been to Pupu springs yet? They're in the Nelson area and are the clearest water springs around. I'm sure you'll love it. Enjoying your posts

[@wendyetherington6297]

Hi you two, I'm loving your travels you're both so lovely. I really hope many locals wherever you go are hospitable to you. Im just North of Welllington, on The Kapiti Coast. Id love to cook you a good roast with yorkshire pudding. That 6 out of 10 Roast in Timaru was bland i guess because they use a deep fryer for the spuds and dont roast everything in the oven to get all the flavour out.

[@colinodonnell8975]

Paid $2 to go into the Riverton museum in 2003. Was awesome! I was the only one there and got to handle alot of cool things, helping the old man with a few chores. Great memory.

[@kiwikathy]

Glen & Mado since you were in Dunedin overlooking the harbour it was like you found that wee piece of Ireland. Farther south, I was awaiting your return again. Huge contrast’s between areas by a few miles. ( turty maybe 😉) Thank you for your wonderful content. Gems 💎 the both of you 🫶🏼💫✨

[@donaldduck2139]

good fishing and shellfish round there...fresh flounder or sole for breakfast every morning there around 30 something years ago one Christmas... was awesome

[@monster10ify]

The building with the piano outside and the poppies in the window is the local Returned Serviceman’s Association (RSA)

[@dereksmith9473]

Love your videos, Warm, enthusiastic and unpretentious. Are you trekking up the West Coast some time? Magical place. If you ever pass by Oamaru again, call in, we live in a seaside village just south of there.

[@heathersmiliekiwi8528]

Stewart Island so worth it! Ulva island a must. Sorry you got so close and missed out :(

[@jennywalsh479]

Great video of Riverton. Our family used to go there for holidays some years. Lived in Riversdale so not far from home. Have lived in Australia for last 54 years but your videos are great whoever u go and positive of each place.

[@martyknox2218]

Riversdale! I lived there for about a year. My folks ran Blue Diamond Takeaways. I can still remember them bringing lunch orders to school in their wee Anglia. Good times 😊

[@johnstuart8511]

Hello: Good to see Mado is back on her feet. Feeling better after the last video. Thanks for sharing your whereabouts of New Zealand. I am in South Africa 🇿🇦. Was in New Zealand in December 2023 (10 Days). But it's always great to see places. New Zealand is fantastic. I need to win the Lotto. Come back and visit more.. Thank you.

[@ianwilkinson3425]

I love people saying nice things about NZ. When you do come back, could you please bring the rugby world cup with you and put it back in our trophy cabinet. Cheers mate😂

[@brittanyhall7384]

I live in Riverton 😊 Learnt to surf since I moved here and always out in the water with the dolphins in the summer

[@christophermarshall527]

Lots on rainbows on the South Coast and of course at the end of every rainbow is a pot of gold.

[@BoldRam]

Loving the random wee treasure spots you've been finding. Enjoy the milking!!

[@pepta]

You look so happy and at home in this place. Maybe you could build your tiny home here with a view of the sea , haha !

[@caralinehowden2951]

I and my cousins spend quite a bit of our school holidays at Orepuki. It can be lovely there, but when its cold its freeeeeezing. Both my grandparents and their son are buried there, I am sure they could have found a warmer place to rest. My family where first settlers to Colac Bay, I hope you guys got a chance to see it. You will know if you did as there is a pub, and a surfer artistic installation there. Sounds like you are enjoying your trip. Actually the lodges are to do with the Masons. I was a member a few years ago, you have to be invited to be a member, nothing to do with the trades. However there are other lodges, which is kinda the same as a boarding house.

[@i.g.n2trip684]

I use to live there decades ago. Beautiful town now

[@pamtawhara7029]

As a child my family would take me to Cosy Nook to do some fishing and gather some shellfish and cook them up for a picnic. Love that place!

[@stephenlennon7369]

James Caddell a 13 year old Whaler-sealer came to this coast in 1802 from Port jackson now known as the Sydney harbor, his crew were killed by local Maori for trespassing. He was spared and lived amongst Maori becoming part of there tribe fighting for them and wearing a 'ta moko' full face tattoo, he married one of the locals having children and venerated as a strong warrior of the Nga Wahi tribe

[@jennylancaster2612]

Good to see your happy smile is back Mado. You poor girl.

[@Luke-pb9oz]

Glenn it is easy to find the gold, just look for the leprechaun.

[@ros4645]

Cosy Nook, ahhhh. Came here often as a child. I love it around the southern coast. Where I come from.

[@joharrison3469]

If you can find the movie 'Two Little Boys' then do watch it. It may be on line. It's hilarious and will give you an interesting perspective on the places you have visited like Cosy Nook, Invercargill and the Catlins. It has a famous New Zealander in it.

[@maganalia]

You're back on my old turf again. I spent quite a bit of time in Riverton some years back. Lovely place.

[@jinaadara9259]

That wasn’t Stewart Island. You have to go down to the point and look over to the right. Stewart Island is much bigger and worth visiting - it’s gorgeous. There is a lot of islands on the Foveaux Strait.

[@ForevermoreVibe]

Looked so fun to find gemstones.

[@trudimclaren4301]

If you want to see a kiwi, go to the Westcoast Wildlife Centre in Franz Joseph - I got a really good deal on a 'backstage pass' where you can see behind the scenes of kiwi rearing (it was only about $30 then, but a while ago). I literally got to see a kiwi hatch and then see them in their incubators - they do an amazing job to keep our kiwis from extinction and you get to hear all about it ❤

[@matthewfreese1597]

What up from Invercargill!! Enjoy your time in Southland, I'll be looking out for you now.

[@richardcaldwell9160]

Glad to see you back Mado. Orepuki reminds me so much of Ballinskelligs - but that was a long time ago.

[@MothershipVideos]

Great watch...thanks.

[@cjiwo]

You can see kiwis at Hokitika

[@gamjadg]

I love your video so much, keep posting this kind of video, thank you

[@GlenAndMado]

really appreciate the special comment :)

[@theunknownunknowns256]

For context on Aotearoa you should watch both Once Were Warriors and Whale Rider. Great fiction movies!

[@EPICPLAYS2024]

3:30 that hear and above it say RSA i think thats south africa because i am from sa and thats what i thing it is❤

[@lorenanewman7507]

Plenty of cheery plum trees on the side of the road through out lower STH Island yellow fruit best it’s public space for anyone who wants to stop and gather fruit

[@kiwihib]

My youth was made up of raiding places that had cherry plum trees.

[@mikemulrooney4824]

Good vid

[@lesleyhughes3174]

I stay at the Freedom Camping site there behind the end hotel when I visit there. The manager of that hotel is a real....Nasty!! Love the gemstone beach!! So many pretty stones. My last lot that I got from there I have placed on my sons memorial site. Thank you for another awesome video Mado and Glen!! 📱📲 🎬 😊

[@lesleyhughes3174]

Gemstone searching gets addictive!!

[@Mcfreddo]

Well we say wiener for Wiener schnitzel spelt correctly correctly here and know it young beef, so not sure what's going on with that? A mistake?

[@Antzs-11a]

Very good thank you Those gem stones retail for $3 each Only good for driveways if you want to get flash as guy Awesome as usual Glenn and mado Ants

[@glendafield9797]

$3 each for the stones. How are there still some left on the beach?

[@Antzs-11a]

@@glendafield9797 not many knows about them glenn you look for gem stone at a shop see what they are worth

[@marias8007]

Those stones are so pretty

[@storm260]

Tu meke 👍🏻

[@parkiwi4787]

My darling Mado you're becoming Irish. What's with this turty miles? It can't be so Glen can understand what your tarkin aboot.

[@GlenAndMado]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@kevincain6942]

To be sure to be sure !! Fancy a German lady missing out the “h” in thirty , ha ha

[@fiwalker6690]

I agree she’s an Irish girlie ☘️ now 😂😂😂

[@AlexPowerish]

It's fair enough - if Glen can say "Murral", which sounds like a German way of saying Mural, then Mado can say Turty. Truly international!🤪

[@Sdal2593]

Murral" is my favourite word to hear Mado say.

[@Mcfreddo]

You can see that the small towns/ships an cities had a lot more going on as with opportunities and businesses. Neo Liberal Economics around the first world is responsible for screwing things up.

[@032254855]

did you get to Tuatapere is not much further up the road is a grate wee town there is also the borland saddle road and the clifden caves all within 30-40 mins drive