We woke up quite late, 8.00am or so, we had yet more driving to do today. We were making our way up to Okahune to meet Sam and Steph but they still don't know we have got the earlier ferry yet, we thought we'd surprise them. We got breakfast and set off, I was looking in the books to see if there was anything of interest between here and there before we get to them that we might want to see. Nothing stuck out so we carried on and decided to follow the signs if an...

We woke up this morning to a few cars going past but it's still pretty dark outside, it was 7.30am. We didn't rush because it was freezing and very misty which would make driving more difficult. We got breakfast and got going for 8.30am. It was still quite misty though, the sun was trying to make it's way through the cloud and mist. This did make for a beautiful morning drive. We were hoping to get a little way to Picton before getting some phone signal to book a...

We got up early again this morning and got going on the road. Todays aim is to get quite a bit of driving done north wards. Our first stop was through Ross which was a little gold mining town in the past. The largest gold nugget was mined from here. We only stopped for a little while but it was like being in the wild west. They had the old jail still standing which was pretty much a small porta cabin size with two rooms, the jail and then the room the policeman s...

We got up all early and organised hoping to go down to the office and get on a walk this morning. When we went in at around 8.10am she said they were full this morning and this afternoon for walks but they have spaces for tomorrow morning. We said thanks and that we'd think about it and went back to the van thoroughly disappointed. We sat back in the van and had a think about what to do. Our plan had been that if we didn't get on the morning one and managed to ge...

We slept well last night and got up and off early, it had pretty much rained on and off all night. Sometimes the rain was extremely heavy with thunder and lightning. This was the weather we had all the way on the drive to Fox Glacier. Apart from the added extra strong wind and hailstones! We pulled up in the car park in the town of Fox Glacier and had a good five minutes of giant rain, thunder and lightning, the whole van rumbled. Once the rain seemed to calm dow...