GOLDEN PRINCESS : NEW ZEALAND / TASMANIA 31st January, 2017 to 19th February, 2017 Once more, sailing to New Zealand on the beautiful Golden Princess from Melbourne. This time we went anti-clockwise around New Zealand and visited the ports we'd visited on our two previous occasions. Sailing in FIORDLAND is always stunning. High mountains and huge waterfalls - best seen while it's raining or after it's rained. It's usually quite cold too. We docked in Port Chalmers then took the shuttle bus into DUNEDIN where there's a statue of Robert Burns right in the centre of the city. Dunedin has a Scottish influence which we loved, being that we're originally from Scotland. Our visit to GISBORNE was quite an adventure as we'd booked to go on an excursion to feed stingrays. We were picked up from the ship and proceeded out to a reef area where we were supplied with waders and given instructions on what to do and what not t