Okay, so I survived the whale watching - no capsizing of boats! So I think I was talking about the glacier hike. Basically at the top of the glacier there is snowfall, and at the bottom, there is melting away and so there is a balance between the formation at the top and melting at the bottom. That all sounds boring so I won't continue. Basically we did about 10km that day, walking about 3 km to the actual glacier and then a few kilometers up it. We had to wear...

Greetings from the South Island! It's Friday 22nd August, 9am, and I'm off whale watching in a little while. I'm gonna recap quickly on the last few days, sorry if it's boring, but I can't be bothered to jazz it up. So, the flight was pretty crap. It started off alright, and the movies were fab, but it turned out we stopped in Dubai for a couple of hours and then in Singapopre AND Brisbane, and it all turned out to be a big faff. Basically New Zealand consi...