We ended our last postcard telling you about the whale watching in Kaikoura. Well from here we headed to Hanmer Spring which like us most people go there to visit the thermal spring reserve. We visited the thermal pools Tuesday in the early evening when it was was lit up and fairly quiet. There are several hot thermal pools here, rock pools and sulphur pools, all with tempertures above 35 degrees. It was very nice and relaxing and you move between the pools as yo...

We it's our last day in New Zealand and here we are catching up on our postcard writing. Well we left Nelson last Sunday but decided to go and visit the World of Wearable Art Musuem before we left. It was realitively small but that was a good think, in one half of the building there were plastic models wearing previous years entries into the Wearable art competition and the other half was classic cars. You entered the Museum into a room wear plastic people ...

Hello, From the boring town of Greymouth we headed what is supposed to be one of the most beautiful scenic roads in the world. It was kind of beautiful but it was a very dull and cloudy day so I didn\'t enjoy looking out the window as much as I would have on a bright and sunny day. The highlight of the drive was proberly stopping to look at the Pancake rocks. Which as you can guess are rocks that look like pancakes. So after looking at these we drove for a c...

Hello to you all from the land where sheep out number people. It has been a while since we last wrote a postcard so let us tell you about our week. Last Tuesday we went on a glacier trip up Franz Josef which was certainly a memerable experience. This is the steepest glacier in the world which can be commercially guided on. Wrapped up warm and in our hiking boots that we borrowed we set off for the glacier; due to it being low season there we only for people...

Yesterday (Saturday) we decided to go and explore Dunedin's Peninsular which is renowned for its wildlife and has the only Castle in New Zealand on it. However we didn't go and see the Castle because you have to pay just to drive up the drive to view it and from the leftlet it didn't look very impressive. It was more like a country house than a castle. Nevertheless we went on two trips, one was a trip round a sheep farm looking at the beautiful views and looking ...