Visiting South Island NZ

I live in Tasmania, will be travelling to the South Island of NZ in late Feb
early March 2008 for 2 weeks, would like to know:

does NZ have daylight savings?
what time roughly does it get dark in the evenings?
and what time roughly does it get daylight in the mornings?
what is the weather like on the south island at this time of year?

We are a group of 3 people, aged in our 40's and 60's, travelling by
motorhome, flying to Christchurch, never been before, we enjoy sightseeing
but we're not into adventure activities.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what is definitely a must-see, and an
idea of costs of camp sites.

Thank you


Linda

Maybe you can help me with my planned trip to Tasmania!
I started in Christchurch and yes the Antarctic Centre is interesting.
Christchurch has some good lamb restaurants.
Very peaceful place.
I would arrange a farmstay if I were you. I stayed on one New Years 99/00
I went to the extreme south Invercargill and through the Catlins then to
Dunedin.
At Dunedin you can see the penguins. I did not stay in Mt Cook area but took
a flightseeing plane.
Very nice drive by Lake Tekapu. I stayed in Queenston and then drove to Te
Anau. If doing the Milford Sound do it from Te Anau. I actually preferred Te
Anau rather than Queenston.
Being from Western Canada- I felt at home in NZ.
If you have some time you can do the day trip train to Greysmouth.

Cheers

Ian

"Linda Hardy" <linda_ann_hardy@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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>I live in Tasmania, will be travelling to the South Island of NZ in late
>Feb early March 2008 for 2 weeks, would like to know:
>
> does NZ have daylight savings?
> what time roughly does it get dark in the evenings?
> and what time roughly does it get daylight in the mornings?
> what is the weather like on the south island at this time of year?
>
> We are a group of 3 people, aged in our 40's and 60's, travelling by
> motorhome, flying to Christchurch, never been before, we enjoy sightseeing
> but we're not into adventure activities.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what is definitely a must-see, and an
> idea of costs of camp sites.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Linda
>

Linda, it is very similar to here in Tasmania just look at the latitude.


Linda Hardy wrote:
> I live in Tasmania, will be travelling to the South Island of NZ in late Feb
> early March 2008 for 2 weeks, would like to know:
>
> does NZ have daylight savings?
> what time roughly does it get dark in the evenings?
> and what time roughly does it get daylight in the mornings?
> what is the weather like on the south island at this time of year?
>
> We are a group of 3 people, aged in our 40's and 60's, travelling by
> motorhome, flying to Christchurch, never been before, we enjoy sightseeing
> but we're not into adventure activities.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what is definitely a must-see, and an
> idea of costs of camp sites.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Linda
>
>