REVEALED! Summer in NZ. 5 Things (that make Locals ‘appy Az)
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Glowworms are not actually worms, but the larvae of fungus gnats, an insect that looks like a mosquito. There are two types of fungus gnats - those that feed on fungi like mushrooms, and those that are carnivorous and feed on other smaller insects. The glowworms in New Zealand and Australia are the larvae of the carnivorous fungus gnats. Former Tour Coach Driver Knowledge
Brilliant, Max!! Thank you SO much for this 😃 Happy New Year to you and yours and thank you for sharing 😊
I am an American who once went camping with my Kiwi family on the Coramandel peninsula. My daughter-in-law brought her bread maker and her silver toast rack!
Hahahah!! Kathleen... SEE!! I TOLD you!!! 😂😂 crikey...imagine sleeping next to your tent...my mouth would have been watering all night!! 🍞🍞 Thanks for sharing! 😆
Haven't watched your videos in a while for various reasons. Good to see you're as entertaining as ever. You're the second Brit who lives in NZ I watched in a row, that extols the virtues of NZ. Unless, as a Kiwi, you lived elsewhere, you wouldn't think, apart from patriotic reasons, NZ is that special. I remember seeing a doctor in London who mentioned her friend couldn't believe how clean our streets were. I was taken aback as I never thought our streets were that clean, and it does depend on where you go, but I can now, after thinking about it for a while, realise why you think that. Yes I do take litter with me till I see the next rubbish bin or I get home. Never thought about it before I left the country for 8 years. And yes, after experiencing Christmas in winter in London, I agree Christmas in summer is something else. I think I might be getting mixed up with the other video I saw, but still I agree with that statement. It's one of the reasons I kept visiting NZ during Christmas and one of the reasons I'm glad I moved back. Hope your guys year turns into a good one.
00:02 Kiwi summer surprises
02:04 Kiwis take camping to another level
05:25 Council campsite by New Plymouth District Council
07:19 Long evenings and outdoor activities in New Zealand
11:14 Enjoying a peaceful beach experience
12:52 Locals' mistaken identity leads to a dramatic car rescue.
16:13 Discovering glow worms in New Zealand
17:55 Unique natural phenomena of gloworms in New Zealand
21:14 New Zealand holds world record for Skinny Dip
22:52 New Zealand's community support encourages people to move there
26:11 Kiwis take summer activities to the next level
27:41 Local backlash against newcomers
31:08 Clean up after yourselves and respect the environment
32:41 Freedom Camping in NZ
35:55 Kiwi summer experience
37:36 Introduction to life in New Zealand as kiwi people
I knew something was missing in my life so far in 2024, and now I realise it was your podcast! ❤ Happy new year Liz and Brian!
That is such a lovely comment, thank you! Happy new year to you too 🥰
Liz look up the naked rugby game played in Dunners😅 I mean Dunedin
Crikey, Mel...Hang on..I'll pour a stiff drink...🤣🏉🥃 Happy New Year our friend! 🥰
Camping is almost a rite of passage for kiwis. Amazing how upmarket camping gear has gotten over the years! NZ has some fantastic beach campgrounds. Waipu up north, Pauanui and Tairua Coromandel, Waihi beach, Ohope beach Whakatane, great well run with facilities for all and awesome beaches. A must to experience for any overseas tourist, (if you can get a site that is as they get booked out all summer). Best experience for families with plenty for kids to do.
Thanks for the info!
Great to see you back guys…love seeing and hearing about our country thru “newcomer’s” perspective. Thank you!
We live in an awesome country!❤
Our pleasure, Rae! Happy New Year and thank you for watching and for being so kind and supportive! 😊
Glow Worms use their light and a sticky liquid hanging from them to catch food. 😊
love you guys so much. makes me proud of our country
How lovely you are, Mark. Thank you. You make us proud to call you a friend 😊
Great to see you guys back in 2024 - delighted that you have taken "me" time with sun/beach/whiskey etc. I suppose the activities depend on where you are in the country - but in summer you cant beat pick your own fruit (usually raspberries or strawberries) and having real fruit ice creams. Or bush walk and picnic (and New Plymouth has more bush walks then most other places. Of course most councils have a summer season of lights/music after dark - and that is certainly a summer activity.
Stay well in the sun Mr G
Happy New Year, Mr G! Sending you a ton of love and a big hug xx
Thanks for your podcast, I am from Chile and I lived in Nz for four years. I enjoy seeing you. I also learn English
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching and we send much love to your family back home in Chile! 🇨🇱😃
@ItsaDrama I am in Canada currently. Still learning English with your podcast. Thanks
Your garden looks beautiful, and Happy Belated Anniversary !! You live in a little piece of heaven for sure! Another fun video, miss you guys! ♥
Miss you too our friends, we are always here if you fancy a trip to the Nak! ❤️
Finally you guys are back! I've had Liz and Brian abstinence
Aww! That comment makes us SO happy! Thank you! We hope you enjoy the show. Liz and Brian x
Hi L & B..... Nice to see your smiley faces again. The garden looks great btw!
Hope to be back home this time next year (fingers crossed)
Thank you Kent! It is great to be back! Thank you for the garden compliment, I had a mad planting sesh in November and I’m so pleased to now be reaping the beauty of the work 😊 Sending you much love! Liz and Bri x
A previous commenter explained Glow worms so I'll just add a few details... They are the larval stage of the gnat and obviously they glow. They lower sticky silk threads to capture moths which are attracted to the light. When they mature, they basically fly away.
Just to clarify for others, the quad bike riders wearing Red Bands... Red Bands are a traditional gumboot in NZ.
Thank you for being here and for sharing! We really do appreciate you 😊
Happy Anniversary, Liz and Brian!🎉🎉🎉 We're thrilled to watch your vlog, seeing your beautiful, joyful faces and witnessing your continued happiness. 💖We miss you dearly. Our breakfast table is once again filled with laughter. 🤣💖Wishing you a wonderful start to 2024.ots of love.💖
Thanks so much, Renata and Saviz!😊Happy 2024 to you both, you also bring an enormous amount of happiness to me and Bri, so thank you for your support and love 🥰🎉Liz
I’m listening to this bang on sunset as I finish weeding because I can’t see any more. You’re right, we do keep busy in the evenings (mainly because it’s cooler). It’s a wonderful time of the day to be in the garden.
Cheers from the other side of New Plymouth (Just out of Bell Block)
Thank you for being with us! So glad that we were able to help you pull a few of those dandelions up! Happy new year fellow Taranakian and thank you for saying hi! 🥰
sun goes down later the further south . . .haven't seen yaz pop up for a while...
Thank you for being with us! We took a three week break to spend time with family. Happy to be back and excitied about 2024! 😊
@@ItsaDrama Merry Christmas to you and the young fella
Happy New Year. Yes Kiwis either camp very minimally or with everything including the kitchen sink😂
Glow worms are pretty cool. There's a few places down here in the S.I you can see them as well. The weather down here in Christchurch has been getting warmer. Tomorrow and Saturday are showing 29 degrees. Darfield is often a couple of degrees hotter than ChCh. Not looking forward to that😢
Happy new year, Susan! We hope 2024 brings you everything you dream of. Thank you for always being here with us! 🥰 Liz and Bri x
Happy Anniversary. My late husband Dennis and I were married on January 7, 1977. We were married 38 years, but you reminded me that there was a rare snow in Alabama that year.
Thank you for sharing, Ginger 🥰 It's always lovely to see your name here with us xx
It's actually been 7 years and even though I married an Australian 40 years ago. NZ is my soul home, I'm a proud Kiwi, love Aussie, great place.Special!
But NZ is unique with a great soul. Love you guys
“With a great soul”…perfect wording, Bruce 🥰 Thank you so much for being with us, Happy new year and sending all our love to you and your family in Oz x 🥰🇦🇺
Ha you.. guys.. are.. funny.. thanks again, you make my day. Coming to NZ this Easter after 6 years of absence to reconnect.
You are very welcome! How exciting to be returning to NZ, and such a wonderful time of year too!Happy New Year and thank you for watching and for saying hi! 🥰
Happy New Year to you xx. I am cooking here in Masterton, the temperature is so high and was 23 at midnight last night. Anyhoo, to support number 2 - my knitting group met under the trees in a friend's garden last week and we knitted and chatted until the sun went down. Love summer
Happy new year, Debra! Here's to a great one! 🥰
Nice garden.
Glowworms are native to NZ and Australia - they're called arachncampa lumiosa
There ya go...I knew someone out there would know!! Thank you for sharing, Ricki! Happy New Year to you! 😃
There you go!! I knew someone out there would know! Thank you for sharing, Ricki and Happy New year to you! 😃
@@ItsaDrama and HNY to you both also
I am envious. Unlike last year when we had an amazing summer this year Dunedin has bean cloudy most summer days.
Oh, no!! Never mind, you'll probably have a beautiful Autumn 🥰
Ya have yarns and ask to look inside there set up people good as to show you there tent etc
I've never understood why people have such flash camping setups - you may as well be at home! It's the same with gas bbqs - got to be charcoal. Otherwise, just use the oven! I guess I'm just not a camping person 😂
Happy New year to you Trudi! Lovely to have you with us 😍
PS: Mind you...we did used to have a bloody big fat inflatable blow up bed for when we went camping..."on the floor for you kids..."😂
Happy New Year to you too! Very excited to have your latest video - thank you! ❤
Oh how I laughed for "they are quite prudish New Zealand are" being delivered with UK accent. 😄 No nudie times in Coronation Street. Hope you and family have a lovely summer.
Hehehe!! Happy New Year to you my friend! Lovely to be back in your box (fully dressed of course...😂)
Very entertaining!
Thank you! So glad that you enjoyed it Jenny! 😊
It's refreshing to hear people speaking so positively about NZ. I see a few vids of Kiwis saying they can't wait to get out of here - I suspect they'll find things aren't so much better elsewhere. Sometimes, life really is what you make it. I do understand when you're young you tend to be drawn to exciting cities - and Auckland certainly isn't one of them🤐
Very easy to do! And yes, 100% agree. Life is what you make it! Happy New Year and thank you for watching and for saying hi! ☺️
In Timaru on some evenings you can see the Fairy penguins come up from the beach to their nests in the rocks and it is still light until around 10 that far south.
Oh my goodness, Cate…that sounds magical…thank you for sharing 💕
Come to the South Island , it’s light until 10pm if not later mid summer
That's absolutely true, my first year in Burnham in 74 in 75 the daylight saving started, out in the bush it was dark after 10pm then 4am it was sun up ha ha ha not much sleep.
Thanks for sharing, Jerry. Happy New Year and thank you for watching and for saying hi! ☺️
Bri
Ur awesome!!!!
Oe' bri....this what happened 😮
glowworms there only two places that have them is NZ australia
Thank you for letting us know! Happy New year to you! 😃
I was home for Christmas and New year this time,first time for 14 years, I really miss Daylight savings,the cows in Western Australia don't like it apparently, might be time to sort out moving back home I think.
Happy New year to you, Andy! How lovely to come back home. I hope your time was fabulous! 😊
PS: Come on... you know ya wanna...🤪🇳🇿
@@ItsaDrama Happy New year to you all as well, I had a great time ,and I was sad leaving to come back to Perth, I really want to move back home, in good time.
If you expect to come back at 65 and get the pension, you MAY have to wait 5 years. Check it out.
@@drthomason7043 What are you on about?.
@@Andy_M986 recent a number of my friends coming back home to NZ from Aus at 65 have had to wait until they are 70 to get the pension. I know policies change and Hipkins did visit Aus to sort things out.
I was brought up camping in NZ and it was primitive. Fire, tent, dug out long drop! I loved it! The camping you talked about first is NOT camping in my book hahaha
Nope...I know what you mean!! Soggy nylon sleeping bags and no pillow...🤪 The best!!
That sounds like Freedom Camping to me. Some of them leave a hell of a mess everywhere they go 😂😂.
nice gardens, passed everything else
also i,m a kiwi but now living in the Philippines love yr show so Ingat Ingat ka means take care
Oh, Wow! Thank you so much for joining us! Much love to the Philippines and Happy New Year! 🇵🇭😃
You'll have to give up telling us New Plymouth is the sunniest spot. I know it's hard to believe, but 2023 was Tekapo
oh gummon dunedin has more sun than Tekapo and thats saying a lot lol
Never. Not ever. Never ever...😉 Happy New Year!
Skinny dipping is a 🥝 kiwi thing
No worries
Ae'
Happy Belated Anniversary (which happened to be #NationalEnglishToffeeDay in the U.S.) Stupendous Summertime, and a Blessed Marital New Year ahead...
Thank you, Rick! Happy new year to you too! 😊
Thanks for the characterization of Kiwi summer. Much more laid back than the Jersey Shore , USA. Does Taranaki have black pebbly beach, or fine sandy beaches?
Thank you for being with us, Sam! We have very fine, black volcanic sandy beaches that glistens in the sunshine (but is extremely hot to walk on!) 😊
Fine sand beaches, hot as hell to walk on in summer.
There isn't really any nudist beaches in New Zealand because there's no law in New Zealand that says you can't be naked in public so technically every beach is clothing optional. You can't even be arrested for walking down to the local shops naked in NZ. Most people just don't realise that, in fact they think it's illegal, it isn't.
Unless you complain to the police. It's definitely It's not permitted, but one complain first, I dare say most cop's possible care,
@@warrenjohnknight.9831 Cops would attend to check but they won't do anything. They attend because the is a law that says you can't be lewd in public, but there's no law on the books at say you can't be nude in public. So they attend to make sure you're only nude and not lewd.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing! Happy new year to you and thank you for being with us 😊
Hey Liz and Brian I am watching you from the UK. We as a family travelling to Australia in March and visiting Auckland and will stay around for four days.
We might make a move to Australia or New Zealand after a visit to both countries.How about New Zealand's climate ? Is it better than the UK?Thank you in advance and take care 😍🤞
I live in Masterton we are going to be hotter in Masterton tomorrow 19/1/24 than New Plymouth supposed to be a balmy 31 degrees 😅😅
Nah...never, Bruce...😂😎 Love to you and yours in Masterton and Happy New Year!
@ItsaDrama Happy New Year to you both also.
Always like watching your video clips Always very entertaining you both have a great sense of humor and fit in nicely with the New Zealand dream life we have here 😀
My Kiwi Summer: staying at home (under the beach umbrella) drinking cocktails, eating ham, cheese and crackers. Go for the odd café visit and decide the coffee at home is better. Missed the seasonal sales as the shops had nothing good. Beach? You know what HB beaches are like (no swimming, no fires).
It's cheaper to stand under a cold shower than go to the public pools, and it's peaceful.
Even the 'informal racing enthusiasts' (remember them from your trip here?) have been quiet. Maybe they travelled north for a meet!
Cocktails and ham sounds like the perfect way to spend summer! Thank you for sharing this wonderful comment and Happy New Year to you! 🥰
Liz & Bri
British kiwi 🥝 terms
Ur welcome 😂😂
Some one has to translate u🎉
Summer in Dunedin is good but it is definitely not the best, Taranaki i can agree tho is excellent
It is Toby! Thank you for watching and for saying hi, we send much love to all in Dunedin! ❤️🇳🇿
Let me show u a video!!
This is granding a car!!!!
How can people relax in a camp while they carry everything including the kitchen sink? 25c is probably the perfect temperature. It surprises me that Brits don't remain active outside during the long summer evenings. I thought in Scotland they'd enjoy being outside until 10pm. I didn’t realise there's no glow worms in Britain. There are glow worm caves in the Waikato but they cost $70. I wish I were a kid again with a quad bike on the beach. Oh dear, locals complaining about the tourists . . . who bring in the money.
Happy New Year, Robert! The glow worm thing took us by surprise too! It feels even more special to know that they are only found here and in Aus! Sending you much love 🥰 Liz and Bri
Glow worms only in NZ and Australia
Thank you! ☺️
😊A true blue channel:TU. "Im coming home" My ❤ and childhood memories are crying too return. Left in 1971. Seeing the magnetic mountain always has a sensitivity to be cherished. Our Oakura surf, swims and camps, & now were many cousins have ŕetired.
1st My next adventure is, in 2024 after yacht=saving on a pension😮 is 2 purchase and sail the Carribean islands,. LIVE - just got to do it....
Taranaki is in my ❤. Over4 a school reunion 2025.(love 2 meet u😂then)🎉
Yay!!! What wonderful adventures lie ahead of you, Ann!! How very inspiring. I can't wait to hear all about it! Happy New Year 🥰🥳
"The Irish whipped everybody" - sounds painful - especially if naked 😂😉
😂😂
What is a kiwi summer -arrived from Scotland to Nelson, allegedly the sunniest spot in NZ, and its rained non stop -🤷♂️🤷♂️😂
Chose the wrong week... Nelson's been 25- 30 deg for weeks/ months
Hahaha! Oh Iain…be patient! You will be all the more blown away when Nelson delivers the goods! Happy 2024! 🇳🇿☀️☀️
Ohhhh noooo he granded thee car!!!
Bri this one is for u😅😅😅😅
My type of lawbreaker, good on ya Brian.
Bloody old bags.
🤣he broke it in style that’s for sure! Happy New Year to you!
Natural born tv talkshow hosts .. arohanui .. glow worms are native to nz and au
Thank you so much for joining us and for your kind words, you are very much appreciated, Happy new year! 😊
Why do they we have two Poms' telling us about our own country? Quite Bizarre!!
Sorry you didn't enjoy our video, Philip. Happy New Year to you and your family 😀