spent the last 10 days in Auckland with my friend. had a nice lazy time saving me money for OZ. did go to the zoo which had or the usual animals in. On 17th went to Eden Park to watch the All Blacks Vs Ireland. it was a wet windy evening but luckily my seat was undercover. the weather made the game quite poor but was still awesome to be at an all blakcs game. the haka was impressive too. 1000s of people there but there is a train station right next door with extr...

On saturday we arrived in Kaikoura at lunch time in order for us to do some activities. It was a really nice day with clear blue sky, fairly warm, and calm seas. this was good as it meant i was able to do a whale watching trip. we were on the sea for about 2 hours and we were really lucky to see 4 sperm whales fairly easily. we watched the whales until they dived back under the water. was awesome to see so many close up and they were huge. after watching these we...

today was a day trip to Milford Sound, advertised as THE place to visit in NZ and the most beautiful place to go. We got picked up from Te Anau by the Kiwi exp bus at 9am (they left queenstown at 7) and drove towards MS. The weather was cloudy when we first left but soon the weather cleared to reveal clear blue sky, and made the scenary look fantastic. The mountians were all very round and green to begin with. we stopped at Mirror lake which had the reflection of...

We got up early today so we could go on a walk through the Fiordland NP. we wanted to walk some of the Kepler track which takes 3-4 days to complette. we obviuosly were only going to do a small section of the track. after walking to the control gates of the dam the track begins through the forest and goes around the lake. it was a flat walk but was all the same scenary so wasnt the best views. we walked to Brod bay had some lunch here but it was really cold so so...

we got picked up at 9.30 and we went to Shearing world. this is a small museum about shearing sheep and showed a video on the world record holder shearing all the lambs was a strange little place. then we drove to Riverton where we stopped at a craft shop and made our own paua necklace. this involved choosing a piece of paua and drawing a shape. the guy cut this out and we sannded down the edges to finish it. Not like our bone carvning session but still a nice th...