We woke up to the sound of rain hitting the van, which was quite demotivating. So we just stayed at the campsite all day being very lazy. We read, did some washing and wished the rain away. By late afternoon the rain had stopped so we went out for some milk and ended up having pizza in the bar/restaurant that had stopped serving when we tried to go there one previous occasion. The pizza was very nice; we had a half-and-half, one side being the “Lewinsky&rdq...

We walked from the campsite into the centre of Dunedin and the visitor centre where we booked ourselves on the Cadbury’s factory tour and the Speight’s brewery tour. We did the Cadbury factory tour first. Cadbury’s took over the factory as it had been another chocolate company previously, and it was called “Cadbury’s Confectionary Limited” as it incorporated Pascall sweets. The smell of the chocolate was wonderful. We discovere...

Today we made the long journey from Milford Sound to Dunedin. On the way out of Milford Sound we were the only vehicle to be going through Homer Tunnel, so we got a great view of the tunnel in our headlights. On the other side we stopped to admire the view of the valley when a Kea landed on the roof of the campervan and started chewing the ariel. This was amusing and we got some great photos, until we noticed the cheeky b***** had bitten off the top of the ariel!...

We left Te Anau to drive up to Milford Sound. The drive to Milford is fantastic, especially as it the weather had cleared and it was a lovely sunny day. We passed lakes and rivers following the valley floor up towards the mountains. We stopped for a couple of quick walks by the Mirror Lake (an oxbow lake that reflects the mountains – unfortunately the wind was blowing when we were there so this didn’t work) and The Chasm, where the river has carved fa...

Our first activity of the day was jet boating on the Shotover River. We were on the 8:30am boat, which was lucky despite the early hour as the 9am boat was cancelled due to the rain. Yes once again it was raining when we were out on a jet boat and at full speed the rain was like hail. Despite this it was great fun and really exhilarating. The boats are incredibly quick and really agile. We were centimeters away from the canyon walls at times (that's literally...