We're not actual in NZ any more as we flew to Oz on the 24th. Just to let you know our final mileage in the banger was 6500km. One break isn't really that bad after that amount of up hills and bends. A round up of Auckland was that it was ... wet! Bye NZ!

Sorry for the lack oh photos! Some will hopefully come later. We've done lots since we left Wellington. We headed up to the Whanganui River and spent a night there. The next day we drove up and over to Lake Taupo where we had Valentine's Day. It's the biggest lake in NZ and is the size of Singapore. It was created by a Volcanic explosion a hundred times more powerful than Mt Vesuvius! Very pretty! The following morning we went to visit Hooker Falls which were ama...

Evening everybody, We left Queenstown and headed back up and out to the West Coast via Haast to Fox Glacier. Whilst there we did a nice walk around a lake (but we;ve forgotten it's name). Then we did a 'Heli-Hike'!! This was amazing. It involved a small flight in a Helicopter up to the middle of the Fox Glacier. Here we landed on the ice, put on crampons and went to explore. We spent about 2 1/2 hrs on the glacier. We saw lots of cool ice caves, which we got to ...

Hello, Well we managed to complete the track and we're very impressed with ourselves. No real injuries just some sore calves and lots of sandfly bites. The views were amazing. We met lots of cool people on the track. The huts were much nicer than we imagined. The track was hard going, especially with the packs. Worst bit was living off freeze dried food for 4 days and getting really stinky. The night before we left our new-ish camera died so we bought a new o...

Hi peeps, We didnt stay in Lake Wanaka for more than a night, though we had our first warm night in our new tent! We decided to head down to Queenstown on our way to Te Anau. Lake Wanaka was really beautiful, you can see why its a favourite holiday spot for the Kiwis. Jo found her dream shop there, 'the bead shop'. Every inch of the wall was covered with pots of every conceivable type of bead in which to make necklaces and wristbands. Unfortnuatly we were a tad ...