A mate back home recommend that I check out ORE. He's from NZ (Wellington area I think) and has been visiting Canada for a bit more than a year. He signed up on my local 4wd forum (http://www.crawlinbc.com) to experience some local Canadian wheeling (and has since bought a rock buggy) so I thought I'd do the same on my journey.
I'm still in Australia (Cairns area), but I'm flying to New Zealand in a week or so and staying for a month or more. I'm planning to fly in to Auckland and work my way down to the South island experiencing as much as I can along the way. I won't have a vehicle, so I'll be backpacking and probably hop on the Kiwi Experience bus tour as I go.
Are there any trips, event or challenges going on in the next while? I'd love get out and experience some real kiwi 4WDriving while I'm here.
I've got a 1980 Toyota hilux back home. '95 fuel injected 22re motor (petrol), 36" tyres, beadlocked, dual transfer cases, locked front and rear, roll cage, etc etc
She's well used and abused, but keeps on going
Cheers!
Aaron
The redbull is optional. On my cruise over to sydney from canada me and a kiwi dude I met on the boat downed a good dozen bottles of jäger on the trip over here (24 days). All straight ice cold shots 
I'll pm you to exchange contact info. 
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