We had to wake up fairly early to leave Whitianga and make our way to Rotorua, so that we could make the most of our time in the geothermal and cultural centre of NZ! En-route to Rotorua we stopped off and visited the Karangahake Scenic Reserve, a free little trip so we were all pleased to go. Damo dropped us off and told us to follow a gorgeous 1km path that followed a river through a gorgeous bush-clad gorge, crossing over 2 rather rickety swing bridges and 1km...

hey hey! right, we left early early from Auckland, but typically the bus was about half and hour late, but we met some friends on the bus who we'd be travelling around Australia with, Arber and Katie. Fi was also on the bus when it arrived to pick us up because she had stayed at Liv Mills the night before and caught the bus at a different stop. Our first stop on the way to Mercury Bay was a massive 'hill' called Mt. Eden, it had yet again fantastic 360* views o...

SO ! the Next day went out and about town, watched a movie at home and had a nice home cooked meal with livs paretns who send their love to all! On firday we got our firtst kiwi bust ot the bay of islands and had a lovley time in the rain! cycled to the supermarket and came out to torrential rain so cycled back unable to see but laughing all the way! hot showers are so well recieved in these circumstances! then yesterday we got the bikes again and pootled along t...

WELL!! if you've logged on in the past couple of weeks,...hoping..praying..WISHING we'd blogged or even..don't say it...but actually added pictures(!) I'm sorry to dissapoint you..and it also lied, we weren't on Magnetic island that long, and as you can see know we've come to an entirely different COUNTRY!! how exciting! but I'll tell you all from where we left you! So...we did rent a car in M. Island (which isn't magnetic if you're wondering..Captin cook was w...

Hey guys!! WEll, obviously we're still having an awesome time but im sure that surprises noone! After our much needed rest day in Harvey bay after our amazing fraser island tour we had to say goodbye to some great friends we'd met, adn move onto Kroombit, a cattle station in the middle(ish) of the outback! The Station is so big that they have to herd their cows with a helicopter, 10,000acres and alot of cows! we rocked up in our bus and were met by real life co...