We didn't make it all the way to Milford Sound the day we left Queenstown, we got as far as Te Anau and camped overnight and surprise surprise it was raining again! The next morning we continued to drive and eventually we came to the homer tunnel which goes through the Darran Mountain range, it's like driving through a cave! We pulled over just after the tunnel to take some pictures but there were a few Kea's about which are a mountainous parrot. They look nic...

Not only had we decided to have a night out in Queenstown in order to do this we had to camp in the city centre which meant .... wait for it .... electric hook up and on site showers! Whoop whoop whooooooop!!!! We got to the site bang on 12 o'clock so we could charge everything that needed it (so basically every electrical item we had with a battery), we showered and I actually dried and straightened my hair for the first time in months! We had a few beers and...

After the Rob Roy Glacier walk we headed towards Arrowtown on the crown range which is the highest road in NZ. It was a really nice drive with amazing scenery. We pulled into a picnic spot to make a brew, Casson got out to have a look whilst I put the kettle on. The van door was open and I noticed a lot of little black flies in the van, wait these were no ordinary black flies, they were the dreaded sandflies, I did a half leap, half roll to get to the door as qui...

Once we left Glacier Country we headed to Lake Wanaka, we got there late afternoon so we pulled up by the side of the Lake and sat there until the sun went down. The Lake is beautiful as is the town itself, it would have been nice to stay in town but we'd planned to do the Rob Roy Glacier walk the following morning so we needed to drive to a campsite a little bit closer to it. The following morning we were up and out early at 7am to drive to the start of the w...

We headed from Woodstock to Glacier Country to see Fox Glacier, Franz Josef Glacier and Lake Matheson, we were really looking forward to this part of the trip as we'd loved the Glaciers in South America. Day 1 - We got to the town and it was absolutely pouring down, it was grey, cloudy and miserable and there was no chance of us seeing anything that day so we found a campsite just outside town and decided to sit it out. Day 2 - The next day the weather was ...