We left Dunedin bright and early and headed to the Caitlins. We spent the day wandering round beaches with sealions just dozing everywhere, saw more penguins and went to a fossilised forest which was crazy! It just looks like a beach of rocks where as when you get up close, they're all fossilised tree stumps - you can see the tree rings and everything (my inner geek loved this!). When we got to Invercargill we were warned strange people came out after midnight b...

Had a night in Queenstown last night as a stop over before the 'Bottom Bus'. The place is gorgeous and the weather was good so looking forward to getting back there as it's the party and adrenalin capital of new zealand! Left early the next morning for the Bottom Bus which goes to the far south of the south island. There were only 7/8 of us on the bus so was nice and have been so busy that most of us were treating this as a detox! When we got to Dunedin we wen...

Arrived in Wanaka late yesterday and it is without doubt my favourite 'town' so far. It's got a holiday feel but without any tacky shops or men in St Georges shorts everywhere, just really cool little town on the lakefront looking out onto the above picture. Would have liked to stay there for a week but I want to change my flights and be in Fiji for xmas so I'll be a bit tighter on time if I do.. Stayed 2 nights and spent the time wandering round the shops, eatin...

On the way down to the glacier I signed up for skydiving. I'd wanted to do it over the glacier/ Mt Cook and had held out while everyone else was jumping in Taupo. I also wanted to do an evening kayaking trip and a full day glacier hike so we thought I could kayak that night, hike the next day and skydive the morning before we left. Sounded good. Then at 11:30 the bus driver announces the skydivers will be jumping at 1pm that afternoon!! You can take your own came...

Tonight we stop at a place called the 'Poo Pub' It's owned by a really old guy called Les who is the funniest person I've met in a loooong time! This is the destination of the Kiwi fancy dress party and our theme was "Girls in bags, guys in drag" All the girls had to make an outfit out of plastic bags and the guys wear drag. We were dropped off for a couple of hours in Greymouth to buy our outfits - the lads headed to the charity shops and the girls the...