howdy folks well, where to start, today we had the most amazing day - we turned up at this random beach in the middle of nowhere and went for a swim with a dolphin! apparently his name is moko and we had a ball he loved playing with, we were playing catch with him for ages (just ben and i - noone else around) and he was loving it! he kept nudging us and hiding, amazing! check out the photos. since the last update we spent a few days in ben's old home whangama...

hello from a rather soggy and bedraggled ben and emma!its been raining the last couple of days and windy for even longer, so its a bit rubbish when you're in a campervan and new zealand consists of mostly outdoor activities!having said that we have had some really lovely weather the last few weeks. since the last update we have been sailing in the bay of islands and lots of beach days with ben surfing and em body boarding. we have a crazy fun time in waitomo ca...

Ben here, my first blog entry! Landed in Auckland on 16th and spent a few days there as we decided to buy a Campervan rather than rent one. Check out the picture, like the brown stripe? very retro. We had some repairs required before we bought her but now we are underway. Stopped at a very hippie campsite that over looked Goat Island, a couple of hours north of Auckland. We throughly tested out whether the van was watertight with a huge cyclone (NZ for big sto...