What an exciting day! Well for one of us anyway. Kate has just got back from doing a 12,000ft skydive! Unfortunately it is my turn to write the blog and I fear I wont be able to describe it well enough so I will get Kate to write a short post script once I have finished filling you in on our recent events. Since our last blog we have crammed in so much and have now completed our journey in the South island. We left you in Milford where we shivered ourselves to s...

It seems Alex is at a crucial point in cooking dinner and so I shall fill you in about our first week in New Zealand. After an OK flight with some turbulence on our way into Christchurch we arrived and found our first nights accommodation which was a really cosy little hostel called the Old Country House. We had a wander around the area and got found lots and lots of fish n chip shops and so gave in and had a delicious dinner. This bought my fish and chip consum...

Happy New Year to you all! Sorry for the delay, here is our Christmas and New Year instalment. We left off on our way to the South West Rocks where we enjoyed the big waves and warm weather. We then went to Crescent Head and went to another carol concert but left early as no one was singing and the choir were crap! Over the next couple of days we stopped in little beach towns and made our way up down to the Hunter Valley where we enjoyed a tour of a vineyard an...

We were promised Kangaroos and Kangaroos are what we got. Massive ones! They arrived just after Kate had finished writing our last blog as we were enjoying a nice cup of tea. We were expecting them the following morning so it was a complete surprise that 1 showed up 12 hours early! We very cautiously approached it but it was probably more nervous than us and hopped away to a safe distance. They are actually quite intimidating when up close and could probably do s...

We are now in a quiet campsite just outside Noosa bang on the beach and thought it was the perfect time to update you with our latest adventures! We returned from our sailing trip in one piece and had a really fantastic time. On the first day we sailed for a couple of hours and then stopped for a snorkel where we saw lots of little (harmless so we were told!) ice cube jellyfish which were (you’ve guessed it) just like cubes of ice stuck together! It was very ...