Woke up to another sunny day, cloud still on the tops of the mountain but there is hope.... (Many people have warned me that you don't get to see the top of mt cook very often which is why it's Maori name means 'cloud piercer'. We took a boat tour on lake Tasman the glacial lake formed at the front of the Tasman glacier, NZ largest. The boat hit an iceberg floating in the lake but no damage done and the girls got to eat some 300 year old ice! The tour was very ...

After all the rain ( thank goodness we weren't in the west where bridges were being washed away and roads closed) we woke up to a beautiful sunny day and discovered what a lovely town Oamaru was. Lilly, Ellie and I walked into town through the beautiful public gardens which left me wondering how NZ affords all these beautiful public spaces ? to get to one of the coolest playgrounds ever. It had a huge pipe that turned out to be a kid hamster wheel that 4 or 5 ...