Hi there, We're still having problems with the photo uploader thing so sorry for the lack of updates on that front. We've put a few up but not all the ones we wanted! We're now in Christchurch and flying to Melbourne tomorrow. Christchurch is really nice- a lot like England (they even have punting on the river Avon!). Since we last wrote, we've been to Milford Sound (on a huge driving day) with some beautiful scenery. We left Te Anau at 6am and drove 2...

Hi All, When we last wrote we were in Kaikoura waiting to go on a whale watching trip. Unfortunatly it kept getting cancelled due to the weather, and after two days of trying we ran out of time and had to leave. Shame, but since then we have done manyactivities to make up for that. So, drove across the width of the south island to Punakaiki to stay the night and see some pancake rocks and blowholes. There had been a lot of rain the previous few days so othe...

Hi everyone, greetings from the South Island! Since our last blog, we left Lake Taupo and went south to the Tongariro National Park which was a beautiful drive through snow capped mountains (as you can see from the photos- Philippa was busy snapping out of the window!). We stayed in a little town called Okahune where we unfortunately didn't have time to do the Tongariro crossing (up to the volcanoes) but we did a shorter half day hike to the Waitonga falls (the ...

It's not been long since our last blog, but we're making use of the good internet, and besides, we've been quite busy! Yesterday, we spent the whole day in Rotorua. We started at Wai-O-Tapu 'Thermo wonderland'. We saw loads of geothermal activity- including steam vents coming from deep in the earth, waterfalls, blue/green/yellow lakes, and the famous champagne pools (water at around 200 degrees bubbling away in different colours!). We then rushed over to see ...

Hi everyone! We've now picked up our rental car (cute little baby blue Dihatsu!) and driven pretty far already! We went up to Piahia in the Bay of Islands first and had a boat cruise around the isalnds. We saw dolphins really close to our boat (you can see Philippa's toes in a lot of the pictures!) and we stopped for lunch on a beautiful island with spectaular views (and sheep!). We also visited a huge waterfall at night which was all lit up, but the photos...