Hi Everyone! This little update should tie up the remainder of what we did in New Zealand and then Fiji. On Thursday 25th January after a short drive up to the bay of islands we stopped for breakfast in (town opposite Russell) and then took the ferry across to the peninsula town of Russell. We found some digs for the night and then spent the afternoon on the beach. After a couple of hours of boredom that evening we decided to have a look around the village. It s...

After saying some sad goodbyes in Sydney to our 'Christmas family' we caught our flight into Christchurch on Tuesday 2nd January. We arrived at around 11pm local time and headed to our hostel in the center of town. On Wednesday 3rd January our adventures in New Zealand began and we set about finding our way around the small city. Christchurch is a very beautiful place, with the city centered around the cathedral square. We got a shock this morning - wi...

Hi everybody! This is going to be our last update from the wonderful Australia. Since the last posting, a lot has happened, let us begin our tale... On the 19th, after a late start, we headed from Port Douglas, back to Cairns. On our arrival, we went for an adventure around the espalande,and caught some sun next to their man made lagoon. After visiting the tourist information center we found out that we would be facing a big fine if we parked on the streets in t...

Hi everyone, here is the second part of our broken-up update, were currently in sunny port douglass but our updates are a bit out of date so were catching up a couple days at a time. Anyways - here goes!Thursday 30th November - today we were in Noosaville and even though we were going to be here for a couple of days with the intention of having a last surf before the coast became riddled with stingers, we decided that we should start trying to sell my board incas...

Hi everyone! Yet another update where Debbie and I have to remember what we did a month ago even though I cant remember what colour socks I'm wearing (none actually, its too hot and they dont go withflipflops or "thongs" as theyre known here! flipping aussies!) but this is our own fault for not doing more frequent updates! anyways... Since our last update, we have covered a pretty substantial number of kilometers of the eastern coast from Byron Bay, all the way ...