After leaving Wellington I made my way back up the North Island. My first stop was in Taupo where I spent the afternoon in the doctors after being bitten by a spider! This whole time I had been told there were no dangerous spiders in New Zealand, but it turns out one of Australia's dangerous ones has made its way over the seas to New Zealand, and decided to bite me! Lovely mark on my leg, a nice war wound!!!! A course of antibiotics later it is healing, but too ...

After leaving Queenstown I headed down South, where it then got cold :-( The first stop was Dunedin, home to the World's steepest street, and also Cadbury's World! Did a tour around here which wasn't especially exciting, but all the free chocolate definitely made up for it! The next stop was then Invercargill. All of the coast line along here is really pretty, lots of seals and we went to beach where the sea lions rest during the day. Different experience walking...

After leaving Wellington I got the ferry across the Cook Straight waters which separate the two islands to the South Island. My first stop here was in Nelson where I met my friend Lauren to travel with her for a fortnight. We headed out to the Abel Tasman National Park where we spent the day hiking up and down (mainly up) along the coastline. Was such a beautiful walk, gorgeous beaches and scenery. After Nelson we moved onto Westport for the night. Here we did J...

I am now in New Zealand!!!! After leaving Broome I spent 4 days in Melbourne. This time was mainly spent catching up with friends from when I worked here 4 years ago and going back and seeing places, seeing how much the city has changed. Was a nice few days, had lovely weather. Was weird going back to my old house and being back in Melbourne, but was nice to go back. Melbourne has hardly changed at all. I then headed over to New Zealand. I spent the first 2 day...