So, after meeting back up with Jen in Christchurch we picked up our new home for the next 4 weeks. We think we have a better model on the Spaceship, a black "explore more' van. It is a bit bigger, the layout is much better and it's slightly cheaper, bonus! We spent our first night in a car park with lots of other campervans, surrounded by beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains. We've been told that unlike Oz, you can pretty much free camp everywhere in N...

Hmmm, I think the temperature in Dunedin was actually colder than England! I wouldn't mind, after all it's good to experience different seasons, but layering up with bikinis, shorts and vest tops doesn't give you much warmth...any excuse to go shopping hey?! I spent a few days here, mainly to do a wildlife tour and to board the Taieri Gorge train. The wildlife tour was brilliant. It didn't look like it was going to be because it was really wet and cold BUT I met...

Maybe we wrote the last blog a little too in advance seeing as the next day we got up nice and early to find out the trip was cancelled due to the cyclone hitting earlier than they planned. So yes, we came all the way to Australia and didn't go in the Great Barrier Reef. After our emotional farewell Jen headed south to Wiseman's Ferry to her Buddhist retreat while I flew over the water to New Zealand. Oh.my.god...it was sooooo cold. I knew it wasn't going to be...

And so it's the final part of our Spaceship tour of Australia...the drive up to Cairns. We can't believe just how many km's we've done over the past 7 weeks, it's about 8000 miles! Despite the unsettled way of life and very cosy sleeping quarters we wouldn't change a thing about our 2months in Oz. We have been able to see so many places that wouldn't have been possible if we'd travelled any other way. We have seen so much wildlife too which has been great...apart...

We have changed our plans so many times, I think we've changed the Spaceship drop off point from Brisbane to Cairns about 4 or 5 times over the past few weeks. We'd been told by loads of people how beautiful the Whitsunday Islands are and plus, you can't come to Australia and not see the Great Barrier Reef...decision made. After a night stop in Mackay to break up the journey, we got to Airlie Beach. This was a really nice little town where we could have easily sp...