Headed off from Geraldine as it was crap, decided to head to the small town of Mount Cook which was beside the highest Mountain in New Zealand of the same name. We stopped off in Lake Tekapo for the night which was sitting beside a massive lake right at the base of the mountain range. They had a weird statue of a dog for some reason which I couldn't figure out. Again didn't do much except skim some stones off the lake for a while. Next day and we had breakfast b...

Up the next morning and on to Christchurch to pick up some stuff from the rental company, we were coming back to Christchurch before flying to Melbourne so we decided not to stay long. Picked up our snow chains and headed off to Ashburton, stopping off at an unimpressive beach along the way for a couple of hours. Had a look round an electronics shop called Smith City whose motto is "has it all", which seemed to be true except polite people with 2 arms, ...

After sneaking away in the morning so we didn't have to pay for the campsite we headed off to have some breakfast, fed some evil ducks for a wee bit and then set off for Hamner springs. Can't say I liked this place to much, it was a little bit " you're not from around here are you?' and most of the locals looked like they wanted to kill us. Decided to go and sit in the thermal baths all day as we couldn't be bothered doing anything else, only problem being i...

Up early thins morning to drive to the terminal to catch the ferry to the south island. Ferry left at 7:30am and luckily it was quite a nice day. It got a wee bit rocky half way through but it didn't last long. A bunch of Army folk dressed in fancy dress were on the boat and were oddly trying to get us to join up, giving us tons of stickers and stuff. Headed through the Marlborough Sounds and eventually made it to Picton, we wanted to head east but the roads were...

We got up around 6am and headed off towards the Tongariro National Park. We firstly pulled up at the end of the crossing but we were convinced not to start walking by the couple we were with. We headed round to the start I was determined to go up it, we stared walking and it took us about an hour to reach the base of the volcano, we had walked about half way up when the couple started going on about "approaching weather fronts blah blah blah" and crap l...