Hi All Well we survived a very flat 3 hour crossing to the North island on Saturday and arrived in Wellington. The north island is so different from the south on fist impressions for a start they have roads, real roads with tarmac and lines !!!!!! It was a bit of a shock comming off the ferry onto a motoryway and we both felt like we had arrived in France. Decided to stay one night just outside Wellingotn on Saturday and on Sunday headed up to Mt Edgemont which...

Hi Everyone Well from the last blogg supplied by Jck on his thrilling adventure of Skydiving we have been taking it easy and enjoying the time we have left in the South Island. We ventured up to the Franz Josef glacier where we did a whole day (8 hour) wlk up the galcier and it was fantastic. We had a great guide, Sam, a young guy form Oz who cut steps into the ice for us to help is climb up it. We had a group of about 10 and everyone seemed to enjoy their day. ...

Hi everyone, Well since doing the bungy jump I decided to do a sky dive over the glaciers. We went down to the air field where they tried to persuade Liz to do one aswell but with no avail. They gave me a 10 minute talk about the process involved but i wasnt listening much as all i was thinking about was the drop. We got into a small sketchy plane, took off and flew along side the Glaciers, mount Cook and gave me a history and geography lesson on the glaciers. I...

Hi All, Sorry its been such a long time since we wrote but its a lot harder to write the bloggs and put pictures on when we are staying on camping grounds. Supprisingly New Zealand are a bit behind the times with technology so we take the opportunity when we can. I think the last time i worte anything was when we were in Hamner Springs at the thermal pools. We had a great time there and after travelling around for about a week with Neil and Sarah (We met them i...

Hi Everyone,Since Jack last wrote a journal to you all we have travelled around quite alot. We have done the very north of the South island now and have started to work our way back down the east coast towards Christchurch. We found a place in land called Hanmer Springs which have hot thermal pools which hopefully we will be testing out this afternoon.The weather hear is so mixed. One day its t-s*** and shorts weather and really hot and the next were wearing jump...