Farewell Christchurch We were back for the last time (this trip) to the church of Christ and would be making the most of seeing Rob, Kiwi, Math, Elle, Cory and the girls. We arrived on Valentine's day and Becky had a lovely bunch of flowers waiting for her on the doorstep, James bought me a Moro bar (the equivalent of a boost chocolate bar!). It was good to see Kiwi and the girls again and we caught up on what we had been up to. We managed to skype a few peo...

After some advice from the ever wise Kiwi we headed back to CC (again!) via Arthurs Pass, on the promise that we will head back up North via Lewis Pass. Arthurs Pass was pretty spectacular but we will hold judgement on our best pass until we see them all. We did a few more walks and settled down for the evening to rest up ready for embarking on a long 6 hour walk tomorrow. After a slight delay on directions to the walk we got going and set a good pace with en...

We were heading up to the west coast where we had planned to stay in a lot of DOC camp sites. I will be completing another page dedicated to our DOC experiences so no more about them for now. We had another great drive through Haast pass with a few stops for some mini walks along the way. The clouds had started to come over so when we got to the glaciers we couldn't see much at all. The walk up to Franz Joseph was spectacular enough and after enquiring about ...

5-4-3-2-1 JUMP! So this was to be the day when we threw ourselves of a very high ledge in the middle of a valley. We had booked a bungy and a swing for an adrenaline fuelled day. We were both a little delicate from the night before but feeling the wind running through your hair as you plummet 134m to the ground is a sure fire way to clear your head! There was a few of us booked on to jump and James was third up. It was nerve wracking enough just getting the ...

QT with Rob and Amanda James and I drove to Wanaka for another night in a house, what a treat and Rob and Amanda joined us the next day. Unfortunately it was a miserable day so we didn't do too much, but it was great to see them again. We all hit the road in the morning heading back for Queenstown. We found a campsite with the perfect location, right on the edge of town. James was getting excited about the opportunity to play crazy golf again so almost as so...