The road to Wellington was fraught with danger and rabid animals. Only joking it was pretty tame and the only animals we saw were from a return to the Ohau seal pups, of which there were even more than last time, although they could have been rabid in all fairness. The ferry journey was equally uneventful, a little bit choppy but nothing compared to rolling around on the sea in a kayak the day previously. Once we arrived in Wellington I checked into my hostel,...

I had a solid 8 hours on the bus the following day, the highlight of which was being mobbed by a herd of cows on the road. I'm pretty sure the cows out here are even denser than the ones at home. I also found out that my drivers grandma was in the Good Charlotte video for boys and girls, a fact I was very jealous of, especially after finding out that she went backstage with them when they toured New Zealand. After a looooooong day on the bus I found myself bac...

Waking up the following morning I found it extremely difficult to move my neck - evidently all the falls I'd taken whilst snowboarding had given me some kind of whiplash!! Luckily I had nothing planned for the day so just attempted to plan my forward travel in the US - something which proves more difficult than I thought as it is not particularly backpacker friendly. But that is something to worry about for another time. The remainder of my day was passed on th...

Our arrival in Queenstown wasn't too late and we stopped off on the way at the Kawarau bridge bungy, the first bungy site in the world, and where I was booking and paying for my Nevis bungy and canyon swing on Tuesday. The site itself is beautiful, suspended over a clear blue river in a narrow gorge with a vineyard over the road. The downside however is that you can watch people bungy and make yourself nervous about your own forthcoming fall of death. The Kawar...

Early the next day we were on a new bus with Poncey, our driver so named due to his penchant for wearing chinos, obviously not a common pastime in New Zealand. The other passengers had been together a while and were of an average age of about 12 so it was pretty lucky Susie and I were only on the bus for two days as we didn't seem to have anything in common with them. Since we spent a fair few hours on the bus that day I'm going to do a quick rundown of what we...