Hello! We are in Christchurch now, been here for a week now. We had a nice time in Dunedin, went out to the Otago Peninsula (even though the weather was terrible!) and went to Sandfly Beach (where there were actually no sandflies, thank god!) and we saw some sealions. You don't really see them till the last minute, they are disguised on the beach, but they are huge!! Obviously Jack wanted to get some close up looks at them, so he had a few moments where one o...

A bit disappointing.... but they had run out of possum pie at the bushman's cafe!! Jack ended up having a 'bambi burger' (just venison i guess!!) and i had a wild venison pie which was delicious! There were some wild deer in the garden there aswell. We drove to Franz Josef and arrived at about 3.30pm. We booked our trip to go up the glacier and chose the half day cos it was a bit cheaper, but we still got 5 hours so it was good. That night, we went out with ...

So having been in Wellington for a week waiting for our passports to come back (we have our india visa's now, woohoooooo!) we eventually made it to the South Island on Monday! We were going to go on Sunday but the ferry wasn't running even thought they said that it would be! We got the ferry on Monday at 8am, and arrived in Picton at 11am. We drove straight to Nelson and stayed in the coolest hostel ever! They did free hot chocolate cake and ice cream every n...

What a week! We had such an awesome time in the Cook Islands and didn't want to leave, but here we are back in freezing cold New Zealand for a month! We met Lesley at Auckland airport last Saturday to fly to Rarotonga. The flight was 3 and a half hours and the landing somewhat questionable!! The plane was all over the shop when it was just about to land, then it was about to topple over (not exaggerating!) to the left, i thought the engine was going to hit th...

We got up early the next day for the drive to the far far north. It didn't take as long as we had expected it to, and we ended up getting there at about 1.00pm. The drive was fine, utnil we got to the last 20k's which was all gravel road! The lighthouse was pretty cool, and it is the area where the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea meet so there was a lot of rough waves! We were a bit disappointed to see that someone had vandalised the signpost that tells you h...