We winded our way down the buller gorge to arrive at Buller Adventure Tours which was just before Westport! Steph had signed up to do horse riding in here, whilst Claire and I were going for the extreme jetboat ride. Extreme it was, powering throught the valleys almost colliding head on with rocks...360 spins the lot! We got absoltely soaked, he also informed us about the history of the gorge to and recent flood levels etc! We then continued onto Westport, it was...

After a very comical ferry crossing with half of the crew still intoxicated from the night before we eventually arrived onto the South Island! We departed the port in Picton and headed for some free wine tasting...great- just what we all needed in our delicate states!! So we tasted a variety of NZ wines...yummy! Needless to say our alcohol levels were topped up again and was an amusing bus journey to our destination of Nelson! We arrived late afternoon to a quiet...

We arrived in Wellington, the capital city late afternoon, originally planning to stay a few days here, but had made some really good friends on this bus now and were having so much fun plus Lauren our driver was awesome we didn't want to leave so we made the decision we were all goignt o stick together up to Queeenstown! This meant we had to depart the following day at 7am to catch the ferry- not much time to see the city! However, first impressions it was a dir...

We got up on Valentines day, shoved everything in our backpacks and headed to the bus - everyone with the horriblest hangover ever! Then set off for River Valley via Tongariro National Park where we stopped for a little walk- the fresh aior did us a world of good! We were about 45 mins from RV and the bus decided to break down and wouldn't work… to our amusement we had broken down at a place called Spooners Hill. So after a few opportune moments for some spooni...

Day one... So we departed Waitomo bright and early feeling fresh after our quiet night to head for Taupo, we signed up to skydive... I was so excited!! With the weather not being good and rain expected in Taupo that afternoon Lauren (our driver) put her footdown and we headed straight through to Taupo! By this time, we were loving the enthusiasm of Lauren and were starting to realise we were going to have a great time on this bus! We arrive at the jump site and ...