Hello! As you may have seen from the pictures we have had a couple of hetic weeks! Last time we wrote we were in Queenstown again, here we did the Shotover Jet, which is basically a jet that whizzes down a canyon doing 360 degree turns and splashing about. This was really good fun but only lasted 30 minutes, we could of stayed on all day, although we were pretty soaked once we got off. We then travelled to Fox Glacier and did a day hike onto the G...

Hi Everyone! Update from the South Island... About a week ago we arrived in Queenstown and haven't stopped since. There's just too much to do here. Helen did a bungy jump on Tuesday over the Nevis River 134m up. Quote: "Totally breathtaking, I was too scared to scream!" Got to be one of the scariest things in the world, jumping out of a cable car, attached to just a piece of latex. We moved onto Wanaka on Wednesday for 3 days of snowboarding at Ca...

Hey Everybody! We have spent the last few days in Fiordland National Park. We spent a few nights in Te Anau, a small town on the edge of Lake Te Anau. In between we drove out to Milford for a cruise on the Milford Sound, which was absolutely fantastic, but very very cold... Actually that pretty much sums up our entire journey so far.... fantastic, but very very cold!!! In a lay-by on the route to Milford we saw a Kea, which is a fat, green, mountain parr...

Hi Everyone! Would you believe that internet access is far more abundant in Peru than it is in New Zealand? The last few days have been pretty eventful. We travelled down the coast from Oamaru to Dunedin, stopping at Shag Point along the way where we saw seals and seal pups. We were snowed in over the weekend, all the roads out of Dunedin were closed off so we couldn't travel. We managed to take the car through Dunedin onto the Otago Peninsular though whi...

Hi Guys! We arrived in Auckland on Monday morning and flew on Tuesday to Christchurch in the South Island where we vegged for a few days in a really cool hostel. We decided to invest in a high quality vehicle for our trip around New Zealand, and now we are the proud owners of a 1987 Toyota Corolla complete with racing exhaust - also fondly known as The Hip-Hop Mobile or Brent. Although we enjoyed Christchurch it was time to move on this morning and w...