Yesterday I went on a boat, and I think it was in Milford Sound. It's hard to tell because it was raining so much that you couldn't see much from the boat. They say that going to Milford on a rainy day is good because there are lots of waterfalls. I guess that's true, there were definitely lots of waterfalls, but it didn't help that half of them were running down the windows ofthe boat, stopping me from seeing out! Didn't actually go outside because if I did I wo...

On the way to Wanaka, we stopped at Lake Matheson, which is known for being a mirror lake. I'm not sure how it works but it's so still that it does reflect almost perfectly (it's the one in the picture, but again, it's not one that i've taken). Wanaka is beautiful. Quite a small town but it's on the edge of a lake with mountains all around it. I think it pretty much sums up how beautiful New Zealand is. It's all lakes and mountains. While there, i went to Puzzli...

(The picture has nothing to do with this blog but I haven't uploaded mine yet and they made me pick one) I am now on the South Island of New Zealand. For the last few days I've not really done much, just travelled lots and spent lots of time getting on and off the bus. I left National Park on Monday, and headed for Wellington. When the bus arrived there we stopped at Mount Victoria for a view of the city. Didn't do much else in Wellington as I was only there fo...

Friday 14th Jan was a pretty eventful day! From Taupo, we headed out to the West of the North Island to Waitomo Caves, apparently world famous for their glow worms. There, I went Black Water Rafting, which is actually not really rafting but more like sitting in a rubber ring and 'floating' along an undergrouind river in a bunch of caves. And when i say floating it wasn't really floating cos there wasn't much current so you have to push yourself along somehow. Not...

On the way out of Rotorua, we stopped at Wai-O-tapu thermal park. It contains lots of carters made by thermal activity, and thermal pools. Many of the pools are all different colours from orange and yellow to blue and green because of the thermal activity. So some partsof the park were beautiful. When we got to Taupo, we first stopped at Huka Falls - quite a small waterfall (i.e. not high) but with loadds of water gushing through it. I left Taupo the same night ...