Right the South Island! So I got the ferry across from Wellington to Picton on a terrible day, so there was no chilling on the deck - had to make do watching a rubbish Martin Lawrence film! Picton was nice - very small and really chilled - just a shame the weather was not great, but stayed the night there and picked up the bus the next day and headed towards Abel Tazman National Park. It was beautiful there and stayed right in the park at Old Macdonald's Farm! ...

OK! Been having a great time here in New Zealand. I arrived in Auckland with no real idea of what I was going to do or what the plan was, but after a day or two, I booked my self on a bus tour thing, one of these hop on hop off things called Stray! And it turned out to be a good choice. I got picked up from my hostel on the 1st day - early doors - and headed to a place called Hahei, pretty poor weather, but it was a good chance to meet people and did mange to sto...

Nothing to tell yet but I'm now in New Zealand and my new number is +64210309351 i think! Don't be shy you can text and test it out!

OK so it was down to me and John to start the long journey from Darwin to Melbourne and we left it with the windows down and the sun beating down. We did not have much of a plan - just follow the one long road down the middle. We had our camping gear, a couple of i-pods and lots of food and water. First up we stopped at Litchfeild National Park - another great place with water falls and gorges, but we did not stay that long because we'd seen quite a few of those ...

Right - this is the story of the West Coast, going from Perth up to Darwin!Andrew Pearson, John Campey and Tom Heapy on tour!My mate John bought a car and we set off on the journey with nothing, so as we attempted to leave Perth we stopped off at K-Mart and bought a tent, a map and a few other things and set off stocked up and started the long drive. First place we got to was 'The Pinnacles' and drove round it. I discovered here that I had no camera battery (I ha...