we left christchurch to go up to hamner springs and Kakiroa.. starting to make our way back to the north island. hamner springs had lots of thermal sulpher pools and was good to chillax.. me and grant did a few lengths too. we stopped at Kakiroa in the evening but nowhere much seemed to be open but it seemed to be a cool little town. we decided not to stop around and to get to Picton for our ferry the next morning.. not that we'd been able to book one cause noone...

We abandoned queenstown the next day because we wanted to get our groove onto christchurch for the weekend. Me and moore were in the front and its been our mission to pick up a hitchhiker.. we saw a dude and decided to pick him up.. the others in the back werent really very impressed and said he smelt.. so once he'd gone.. we picked up another one haha this also didnt go down too well with the others even though he was a really friendly guy and lent us his ipod t...

Finally we left queenstown to go further south.. we managed to get to Te Anau for night fall and spent the night in a DOC (department of conservation) campsite.. over half way through the trip and we have just managed to discover the dirt cheap, best places to stop.. genius. We had heard on arrival that the road to Milford Sound had been closed for the night due to snow so it wasnt looking good for potential driving there the next day.. in the morning the weather...

heya! got loads to catch up on argh!! so me and grant have apparently become the night time tag team for driving Donde and took charge of rolling into queenstown quite late on. we parked up and collapsed.. only to find ourselves completely surrounded by cars in the morning so had to do a skillful evac of the area! We had already booked our bungy time so were free to get down to business with the real stuff.. drinking! we only meant to have 1 but excitment got th...

south island summary! we arrived in picton after the ferry crossing that seemed to take ageeesss. and head off towards nelson but it had taken longer than we'd banked on so didnt make it quite all the way there. we stopped on a pub carpark for 5 dollars as wanted to wait til we were properly in the wilderness before stopping on the road just in case we got in trouble! the next morning we arrived in nelson but because it was a sunday not much was open and we caug...