Not much in the way of activities to report on on our return to the North Island via the Picton Ferry...we made our way back up on the Magic Bus with severe dents in our pockets, so mostly it was just one big bus journey back to Auckland, view a nights stay in Wellington, Naipier and then Mount Manganui.On our return to Auckland, Suzie, Ed and I decided to make our way up to the Bay of Islands, which was meant to be a really beautiful part of New Zealand, while K...

With the taste of Fergburgers still fresh in our mouths and 3hrs sleep later, we departed for Dunedin...as you can imagine, not much was made of the day apart from catching up with sleep... The following day we headed to Lake takepo...on the way we stopped off at a few sights, including Baldwin Street, with its amazing gradient, which made it the steepest street in the world...a shocker to climb. Then we made our way down to the Moreaki Boulders, which were a se...

The activity filled couple of days continued on the 7th, when we headed into Wanaka...we initially stopped off at Lake Matheson to view the reflective lake...had a pretty decent reflection of (the climeable/unclimable) Mount Cook, where we also got to view my 100th waterfall since departing for my travels...water and gravity combining to form another awesome geological situation...tho this time it had a pretty cool waterfall over it... We then departed for Wanak...

We decided to do a bit of sightseeing on one of our luxury days off...so us four decided to head up the cable car to take in some views...unfortunately we got distracted by a kids playground at the top and spent most of the afternoon on the swings and slides...lol. We then tried to get in a bit of culture at the Te Papa Museum, but it was close to closing time by the time we got there, so we only managed to peruse a few exhibits... The next day we caught Ferry, ...

We decided to do a bit of sightseeing on one of our luxury days off...so us four decided to head up the cable car to take in some views...unfortunately we got distracted by a kids playground at the top and spent most of the afternoon on the swings and slides...lol. We then tried to get in a bit of culture at the Te Papa Museum, but it was close to closing time by the time we got there, so we only managed to peruse a few exhibits... The next day we caught Ferry, ...