We are back in Auckland and leave here this afternoon for our flight to Santiago in Chile but first an update on the last 2 weeks. Spent a few days in Napier where we did an Art Deco tour and also a vineyeard tour. 4 vineyards each with 8 or more wines to taste so let just say it was a merry afternoon. Napier gets invaided by cruise ships a lot and on the others day its a very quiet place. Next stop was Mt Manganui a beach town where most kiwi folk head to in t...

Sunday 18th Jan we headed to Kaikoura and the reason for stopping here is to swin with the Dusky Dolphins. We booked in for Tuesday at 5.30am. Early to bed on Monday and up at 4.30am. The weather was bit windy as we walked along to the office and when we arrived we were advised that the skipper was going to make a decision on the trip in 15mins. Unfortunatly it was cancelled so rebooked for the first avaliable spot which was to be Sunday! Walked back and went str...

Tue 6th Jan we left Franz josef and headed down to Queenstown. Lovely breakfast stop by Lake Matheson with views of Mt Tasman. Just after we left there a crazy woman jumped out infront of the bus so we stopped. She had been called from a motel a little way back and they had told her to flag is down as the bus was leaking diesel over the road! How lucky are we that someone stopped us. So Mike jumped out and found yes a big puddle of diesel. Oh no are we going to h...

It has been along time since we last blogged so this one will be a long one...... What seems like forever ago we left Nation Park on 29th Dec for Wellington on the Tranz Scenic train. Very nice journey down took about 5ish hours. Arrived in wellington, found our hostel and went straight out to find food. An overwhelming experience after spending 6 weeks in a village with nothing. Of course we had Japanese and it was great. Wellington seems like a small city bu...

Hey all we are still here just been travelling down the coast since Saturday, now in Queenstown and off to Dunedin tomorrow so will update blog and lots of pictures soon. We did have fun today doing a tandem bungy its was amazing or as the kiwis say....sweeeeet as!