Evan left you with a real cliffhanger with us and Rik standing in the rain by the side of the road out of Kaikoura, with our bags getting slowly wetter and a cardboard sign saying "Christchurch." Well it started slow I have to say... but then we were blessed as Evan was poo-ed on by a seagull! Not only was this incredibly amusing for me and Rik, BUT it also brought us good luck, and fast, for within 5 minutes a guy pulled up in a massive landcruiser wit...

So we arrived in blenheim late one evening after a nice ferry crossing. Still travelling with Iain we were dropped at a hostel for the night and bid him a fond fairwell as he headed on down for the ski season further south. Our hostel was fine, quite modern and warm but only had 6 people in it seemingly, a german couple and lots of chinese, there was not much atmosphere and language was a fair barrier so we decided to spend the night and move on. next day we move...

So... we uploaded an entry that seems to have got lost so to get you up to speed really quickly - we arrived in Auckland a couple of weeks ago, and spent a few days enjoying ourselves looking round. Visited Devonport which is a nice village across the harbour, then decided rather than working in Auckland we would head south and see what happened. We got a lift with a guy called Iain who is a student from Edinburgh over here for the snow and with him we travelled ...

Hello, We are now back in sydney before flying to New Zealand tomorrow. i know, i know! last you heard we were in Cairns, and now we are in sydney. What happened? how did you get there? where did you pass through? Panic not for i shall now tell you the odyssey which brought this wild turn of events to pass...We got the plane down on monday.But before that we were meeting Sarah from our Sailing trip in Cairns for a night out. We met her successfully and went for o...

Well we left you in Noosa and so much has happened since then, where to begin? We headed on an overnight bus to Mackay where we met up with Sam, Evan's mate from Hit Entertainment days who is from there and after extensive travelling herself lives there again now. She did a fine job of showing us round and treating us to nice pub roasts and we drove out to the Eungella National Park where we spotted duck billed platypus ( platypuses? platypi... Mary any g...