Milford Sound, New Zealand (8th Mar 2008) Queenstown to Milford Sound via Te Anau Driver: KaraDistance Travelled: 299.9 Km / 186.4 Miles Accumulative Distance: 1295.8 Km / 805.3 Miles By 8.00 AM we were up and about and ready once again to hit the road but not before spending a few more minutes enjoying the views of the lake through our condensation covered windows.Arriving back into Queenstown we felt like we ought to stop and have another look around to...

Queenstown, New Zealand (7th Mar 2008) Fox Glacier to Queenstown Driver: KaraDistance Travelled: 400.6 Km / 249.0 Miles Accumulative Distance: 995.9 Km / 619.0 Miles We both woke up feeling absolutely awful, still full of cold and sore throats to boot, but we knew we had a very long drive to do today so we had to get up and get on the road and just deal with it as were looking at covering about 350 kilometres. Back on the road and we still had some great ...

Franz Josef, New Zealand (6th Mar 2008) Punakaiki to Fox Glacier via Franz Josef Driver: KaraDistance Travelled: 262.8 Km / 163.3 Miles Accumulative Distance: 595.3 Km / 369.9 Miles Day two didn't get off to the best start, after being savagely attacked by swarms of sand flies in the night; we woke up early, cold and covered in bites at our beautiful, free campsite next to the beach. We set off early destined to reach Franz Josef by the early afternoon an...

Punakaiki, New Zealand (5th Mar 2008) Christchurch to Punakaiki via Arthurs Pass Driver: MarkDistance Travelled: 332.5 Km / 206.6 Miles Accumulative Distance: 332.5 Km / 206.6 Miles Kia Ora, were out on the open road at last... The very first leg of our adventures around New Zealand will probably remain one of our favourite days, mainly because it was the first time we got to experience how spectacular New Zealand's landscape really is, that and we were st...

Christchurch, New Zealand (3rd Mar 2008) We had been looking forward to and dreading this day in equal measure; looking forward because it meant a new country and a new adventure, but dreading it because it meant one of our longest days yet travelling wise. The day began with the first flight there was out of cairns at 6.00, which for us meant a taxi to the airport at 4.45am, and although our connecting flight wasn't leaving Brisbane until 4.30pm, the flight w...