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 ...

Hi everyone, Just a quick note to say we're in Mt Cook village. We've added some new photos, but the internet is really slow so we shall add some captions later. We'll put a proper blog up later as well. No broadband up here so will have too be quick. Peel Forest was brill. We stayed in a nice DOC campsite which had showers and everything! We did a few walks around that area (see pics) but after a couple of days it started to rain. Tent was only JUST managing t...

Hello, We're now in NZ! Flights were fine, but the transfers didn't exactly go to plan. We missed flights due to immigration delays (obviously they didn't want us in the country). We had problems with our tickets (i.e according to the computers we didn't have any tickets. Computer says "No"). We arrived in Auckland after about 25hrs of travelling, then Biosecurity(!) confiscated the tent to have a look at it?! Finally got that back but had missed the c...