Chilled out and took it easy while on the ever so small Rarotonga. Done a bike test to help get us about and some of the locals pub on a great traditional dance show one night. Snorkelling in the reef around the island was brilliant and everyone is so relaxed, brilliant place to chilax out.

From Queenstown across the country we seen alot of Merinos, massive irrigation units, big canals, glacier lakes and stopped for alot of snacks. Took it easy in Christchurch, went punting on the Avon and got the tram around town. Flying out soon for Raratonga, pity we couldn't have stayed for longer.

From Te Anau we travelled alongside the Te Anau lake calling off first at the mirror lakes from some great mirror reflections of the Southern Alps. Further into the Fjords we passed the Lake Gunn and the divide and walls of snow from previous avalanches. Through the 1.2k Homer tunnel, there were hundreds of waterfalls as it had been raining early in the morning and back down to sea level at the start of Milford Sound we got onto our cruise boat out through the so...

On the way out of Invercargill seen Henry the 125 year old Tuatara (lizard), on the way on around the coast had a rest at McCracken's rest for the essential photo and had a look out for whales which were just off the beach. On up the road we stopped for a walk at the Clifden suspension bridge and then again at Lake Manapouri getting stunning views of Fjordland. The rest of the day we watched the rugby in Te Anau, a few provincial games then All Blacks against S.A...

We helped out best we could with Sam though we may have been more of a hindrance. After checking out Simons pimped out work truck we all headed into Invercargill for lunch and bumped into the Bay of Plenty team who would lose to Southland the next day, ha ha. We came across Burt's flying Indian in town and headed on out toward Riverton to try our hand at a bit of Whitebait fishing. Jo and Libby got over excited with the Paua jewellery while Simon, Sam and I didnt...