Baaaaaaaa... here we are on the north island of New Zealand. After a random meeting with Owain and Lisa (Aarons brother and fiancee) at Melbourne airport, we had a short flight over to the land of the Kiwis. The next 6 days were to entail much eating, sight seeing and catching up. First stop was the Bay of Islands, around a 5 hour drive on winding cornish style roads in the bad weather.. we could have almost been at home with the green hills and farm smells (aa...

Well as you can see. We are rich, filthy rich!! Well not quite, but we sold the van...i'll come to that later, first lets pick up where we left off! So we continued our drive around the SE corner of Australia looking for waves and good car parks for Red Rum to do Suduko puzzles in! The surf gods werent as kind whenwe got to Victoria and neither was the weather - dropping to a daily high of 16 degrees! the coldest day in 50 years in november (dont worry though...

If Becky was my pet horse then we would have put her down by now! Yep, old "Red Rum" has been in the wars a bit! Major problem being all those choccie bics have got lodge somewhere in her back and moved one of her rib bones on her spine (well thats what the chiropractor said , minus the choc bics bit!). So whilst ive spent my days shriveling like a prune in the sea surfing pretty fine waves whilst i look like an overly keen grom with a head that looks l...

Well, the Royals visited, and i think that they must have thought we were hungry, because during any spare moment we just ate and ate and ate! The sailing trip was brilliant. We had a nice boat with only 7 others on and 2 crew, and the hutchens party definately ruled the decks! JB got straight in there and before we knew it he was at the helm driving the boat and then swinging around like a monkey pulling the sails up! We all had a go at it and got right inv...

Road trip! Guess that how you could explain our last few days, having successfuly taken our white beast 1200KM to airlie beach from brisbane. En-route we made a few stops, going to our stomping ground Noosa, we were pleasantly pleased when we scored a very good last surf at Tea Tree on the points, and we even slept in our van outside our old house like some strange stalker! Next stop was Hervey Bay 3 hours north, here we opted for a spot of whale watching, a 5 ho...