The Glapagos Islands are spectacular!! Everyone needs to visit them!! We got up early on Friday morning to catch our flights to the coast and then over to Baltra on Santa Cruz. We were met by our guide who took us to the port. At the port we were greeted by some sea lions resting on a bench - so we were off to a great start! After lunch on the boat (my home for 4 nights) we went over to Plaza Sur which is a little island covered in sea lions. I couldn't beli...

Hi! After what feels like two days of travel I have arrived in Ecuador - yeay!! I went from Auckland to Santiago, stayed there for 19 hours (in a hotel), then flew up to Lima, then on to Quito. The signs at the airport and on the plane have kept me amused along the way. In Sanitago there was a notice at check in that had a pictures with lines through them of cheese and a tortoise - fairly normal to not allow dairy products to fly, but do people really check in ...

Hi, Yesterday we went to Rotorua. A town full of geysers and steam coming up from all over the place. On the way to Rotorua we stopped off at a couple of places. the first place being somewhere that breeds rabbits with extremely long hair, then uses the fur to make jumpers. It was very strange watching a rabbit being sheared!! Certainly another thing I probably won't see again. The rabbit was actually tied down as if he was on a spit the turned over until all t...

Hi! I got to Auckland late on Saturday night. By flying up here I saved 4 days on the bus - what a luxury!! On Sunday morning I met up with Cheryl who I met on Bounty Island (the place I didn't like in Fiji - Cheryl loved it though!). She collected me in her car and took me for a little tour of Auckland. We went up Mount Eden, and One Tree Hill, and we went to a number of different areas along the coast for a look around. It was really nice. For tea we went to ...

Hi, I have had a quiet week compared with last week's bungy jumping action! I have been to Milford Sound, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Stewart Island and Dunedin! Milford Sound was very pretty, although the eather wasn't the best. I think that the pictures would have been better if the weather was nicer and the mountains were reflecting in the water - oh well. We took a cruise out to the ocean, I really am over boat trips (I don't know what I am going to...