Hello Perth! 18-20th Feb 11 Flying into Brisbane, I could see the damage the floods had left, and still a lot of the countryside was still underwater. It was quite strange seeing it like that. Waited in the airport for 4 hours stopover with some free wifi. Finally arrived in Perth, nice old cockney bloke from the hostel picked me up. Hostel is pretty random but chilled. Free pancakes every morning! Met a Dutch girl (Kristi) who randomly got the same flights as m...

Milford Sound 8th Feb Wasn't best weather but saw loads of mountains going down into the sea. Took a cruise around that went under the waterfalls and saw sea lions and seals. Met some cocky American boys who were pretty funny joking about getting the dvd- pretty funny as the weather was so rubbish. I can imagine the place is amazing on a great day, but the problem is it's the wettest place in NZ with 285 rainy days a year on average. 7mm of rainfall just when ...

SOUTH ISLAND- My favourite Picton- Marahau, Abel Tasman. 26th-29th Anyway it was time to leave the north island, and get the ferry to the south, luckily a couple of Canadians were driving to the ferry port as they were catching the same ferry, so they gave me a ride. Saw all the stray people there and we checked our bags etc in. Watched worst film in the world, called journey to the centre of the earth. Most unrealistic thing I have ever seen, so much so that...

North island Leaving Auckland 17th Jan Woke up early for the Stray bus leaving base, after a great nights sleep a really comfy mattresses. Saw about 4 people I had already met from the previous trip, who were travelling southbound like me. Its strange because since being in NZ, I have met about 5 people who I already knew, some who I met in different places in Australia, and also a guy who I knew from ski season, who I randomly met on the dolphin boat.I didn't ...

So one of my many New Years resolutions was to keep my blog up to date, and it is now the 15th Jan and still no posts.. so here goes.. New Years Eve in Melbourne was great but probably for all the wrong reasons. I decided not to plan anything atall and have no expectations because learning from previous experiences, NY is never what it is cracked up to be.. especially if you plan something big! So lots of my friends from the hostel had booked to go to Sydney...