Thursday 2nd August After breakfast it was a short ride down the road to Lake Matheson which gives some great reflections of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook (Aoraki) From here we drove to Wanaka passing some great scenery and Lake Hawea and Lake Wanaka on the way. Once in Wanaka we visited Puzzleworld to walk around the largest maze in NZ. We spent 1 hour walking around the maze and must have walked about 2 miles trying to get out Wanaka was fully booked up due to the...

Well Well Well What a day we have had today. We told you to watch this space. Arrived at Fox Glacier this morning at around 10am and chanced our arm at getting on the HeliHike in the afternoon. Well someone was on our side and we managed to get the last 2 places of the day!! After a safety brief and fitting of boots we were off in the helicopter for the short ride up onto the glacier and Mel managed it without throwing up all over the helicopter like in Vegas!!!...

We had a wonderful stay in Greymouth but had to move on so it was back in the car for the 170km drive to Franz Josef, home of the 1st of 2 glaciers along this coast.We arrived into town a little after midday and found ourselves a cheap hostel then drove up the track that leads to the glacier car park, it was a really slippy road and muddy our little car struggled but did us proud and we made it to the car park.Our first walk was a short hike around 30 minutes rou...

After having boiled eggs for breakfast we left a wet Westport for the 100km drive to Greymouth, the biggest town on the West Coast. On the way we stopped at Punakaiki to see the Pancake rocks at Dolomite Point, these are limestone rock and mudstone that have been eroded away over many years and have formed various different shapes one of which is a hidden face and another is a fish!!!! It was then only a short drive to our destination. We checked into the Global...

Had our free mammoth breakfast this morning before heading off South west for Westport. The drive took about 4 hours with a few stop offs. The first was Lake Rotorua and the start of the Southern Alps, it was very tranquil and picturesque. We nearly hit 2 loose sheep that were on the road and had to swerve to miss them, which is a shame as it could have been Roast Lamb for dinner instead of pie and peas!!!! Carried on driving and took the only road through Bulle...