16th April- Went to see Lake Matheson, amazing veiws as its a very still lake and so has a perfect reflection of the mountains above. Then walked up to see the bottom of the Fox Glacier, very picturesgue and really nice weather for it! 17th April- Woke up very early as we were going on a day hiking up the Franz Joesph Glacier!! Very fun, spent the day clibing in ice caves and through ice tunnels. Very bruised from it and very surreal standing on a large piece of...

So much has happened and I do not have much internet time so I am going to put the highlights in bullet points; -Wellington was beautiful, had a glorious day there, went to a museum which I thought had a maouri exhibition but due to my cough and cold (yes the one I brought from Childers, its still going strong!) has blocked my ears so at times my hearing is very poor and once in the museum we realised I had miss heard maouri for Maritime!! Got the cable car up t...

I have landed!!!! I have just done a skydive from 15,000 feet over Lake Taupo! It was amazing, I loved it! Yesterday we went white water rafting, zorbing and to a spa which has the water from Lake Rotorua which is meant to have healing powers. I'm not going to write much now as 1. I am still buzzing off the adrenalin of the skydive and 2. because then I can upload photos which show far more than I can say!!! I am, needless to say, loving camper lifestyle! We are ...

I have safely arrived in New Zealand! Bumped into Steph and Beth at the airport while I was attempting to deal with my shampoo leaking in my rucksack, as it does everytime I fly! We got the bus to our hostel in Auckland, arrving around 7pm. We then had a mooch through Auckland as we went off to find a supermarket to get some dinner. Back at the hostel we began to attempt to plan our months trip and then went off to bed. In the morning we were collected from the ...