The limo turned up on time to pick me up at 10am and before I knew it I was on my way to Taupo airport. Only this time it was a little different, sure I was going to get on a plain but this time I was making my own way down from 15,000 feet! Me and 7 others where about to board a tiny propeller plain and skydive back to earth. I wasn't really nervous as this is something that I'd been looking forward to all my life and before long I was in my jump suit and being...

Well I guess it's time for another update from me, after all it's been nearly 2 weeks since I wrote last time and as always a lot has happened since then. For one, we are now in New Zealand and well on our way to the South Island.but let me go back to when we first arrived (Friday 13th). Our flight from Sydney should have been pleasant seeing as it is only 6 hours, however as it was Friday 13th (the only way I can explain it) we had the most annoying Frenc...

So here's Part 2 of the blog... After picking up our car we drove into Melbourne. What a mistake that was! We got caught in rush hour traffic and spent 3 hours trying to find a motel for the night that we didn't need to take out a loan to pay for! They were charging ridiculous prices and after driving around the city a few times had enough and drove straight out. Our next stop was due to be Wilson's Promontory so we decided to head in that direction and find a m...

OK, I guess it's time for another blog - I can't believe that it's been 2 weeks since the last one. So I will do this blog in 2 parts as it's going to be a little long. So let's go back to the end of the last blog in which we had just arrived in Port Douglas and were looking forward to the toad racing. That night we did go to watch the racing which actually wasn't very good. First of all I think it was extremely inhumane towards the toads which were being picked...

I'm really going to push the boat out and do 2 blogs this week and get myself really up-to-date, so this might be a bit long. The last blog took us to last Wednesday and Fraser Island...again wow - after that we headed up towards the Whitsundays but stopped on our way at a place called Bundaberg. Contrary to what you might think this isn't somewhere in Germany but instead the home of the Bundaberg rum. So we thought it was well worth a detour to check out the ru...