What a fab day! The weather has finally listened to our prayers and we have made up for the last few days. Today we have spent it in Kaikoura, possibly one of the most beautiful places on earth where the mountains literally meet the water. It was pretty yesterday but with the sun shining it is gorgeous! The sea is a million different shades of blue and green! Early morning for us as we had booked a dolphin and whale tour. Our first tour was out at sea swimm...

We have covered plenty of distance since our last blog! It is about 2000km so far for NZ. After Queenstown we have been taking in the scenery and the wildlife as we travelled through Te Anau, Invercargill, Caitlins, Dunedin, Omaru, Akoroa and finally Hamner Springs. Te Anau it rained and rained and rained which we sort of expected of Fiordland so we did a lot of sightseeing of the lakes from the car. We did stop off at a small information centre and watched a...