So now I am right at the end of my time in New Zealand! I leave tomorrow.... So I'd better let everyone know what I've been getting up to until now! I left Wellington and headed up to Taupo for an overnight stop, which was my last night with my Scottish friends Jess and Neil. I went to watch them do their skydives over Lake Taupo and it brought back all the memories of me doing mine! I was really jealous and wished that I could have done it again, but I can't af...

Leaving Kaikoura we took the ferry back across the Cook Straits over to Wellington, and passing through the Marlborough Sounds Jess and I saw two dolphins! Pretty lucky! They were really cool. When I arrived in Wellington for the second time on my way back up north, I was lucky enough to stay with some lovely friends called Andy and Sarah from back home. I have known them for years since Andy is one of my older brother Ben's best friends and Sarah is his girlfri...

After a 9 hour bus drive (the longest so far by far) up to Christchurch we got out into our hostel Base Christchurch which was probably the worst hostel I'd been in so far. The Base hostels through NZ are usually pretty good, but this was an absolute maze, really confusing to find anywhere, and it was FREEZING! Thank goodness we were only staying one night. The next morning we got back onto the bus and headed up the east coast to a small township called Kaikoura...

The next morning (after our night in Invercargill) we had to get up early to go to a place on the west coast called Milford Sound, renowned for it's natural beauty and known as the 8th wonder of the world. However, the weather conditions meant that we couldn't get over there. The road from Te Anau to Milford (the only road that goes there) is notoriously treacherous, with many avalanches and landslides per year, many of which can cross the road, and as there had ...

So after getting on the "Bottom Bus" (a company affiliated with Kiwi Experience that does trips to the deep south), I headed off to the southern-most point of New Zealand extremely tired after my late night saying goodbye to the Rays and watching world cup football! We first of all stopped and went for a short walk to a place called Nugget Point which had a very picturesque lighthouse overlooking some rock outcrops coming out of the sea. It was apparen...