Client seminars begin again with ‘Wildlife, Walks & Wine’

Grapes in the Hawkes Bay area of New Zealand.

The summer season of client seminars kicked off on Friday 12th June with a presentation by some of Audley’s Australasia specialists. ‘Wildlife, Walking and Wines’ covered both Australia and New Zealand and was attended by 18 Audley clients.

The seminar began with Lucy Harrison who talked about a number of the walking and wildlife options available in New Zealand. From the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island where you can enjoy a walk with Kiwi Dundee, New Zealand’s answer to Crocodile Dundee, to Kaikoura on the east coast of the South Island, famous for its marine life such as dolphins, seals and sperm whales, there are endless walking options for walkers of all levels.

Next up was Jenny Bouquet who talked about the walking and wildlife options in Australia. As a fan of Tasmania, Jenny started her talk here, picking out Cradle Mountain and the Bay of Fires as two of the options for keen walking and wildlife enthusiasts as well as focusing on the lesser known Maria Island Walk, cited by some as the most diverse of Tasmania’s walks. Other options included a walk along the Great Ocean Road on either 3, 4 or 6 day walks with the opportunity of seeing wallabies, kangaroos, seals, whales and numerous bird life, Kakadu National Park walks which are great for flora and fauna, and the Bibulum Track in Western Australia where walkers can expect to see quolls, wombats, cockatoos and southern right whales.

To conclude the seminar, Chris Wilson discussed the famous wine regions in both Australia and New Zealand. With Hawkes Bay, Martinborough, Marlborough and Central Otago regions offering excellent vineyards in New Zealand, and with the likes of the famous Hunter, Yarra, Barossa and Clare valleys easily accessible in Australia, there are plenty of ways in which you can incorporate wine into your trip to Australia or New Zealand – getting to enjoy a glass or two of the local tipple isn’t a bad thing either!

To find out more about a tailor-made trip to Australia or New Zealand and incorporating walking, wildlife or wine into your itinerary, call our Australasia department on 01993 838 800, or fill in a quote request form online.