This is a bit of a catch up session, as we have been off the radar for a couple of days. We are now actually in Invercargill on the south coast, and it's the evening of Sunday 11 th March here already, but this is to update you about our amazing heli-hike on the Franz Josef Glacier on Thursday (NZ time). We had a leisurely start to the day, waking up to clear blue skies and sunshine over the mountains - lovely. We headed into town at about 11.00 and checked in fo...

Well, on Wednesday morning, apart from the fact that we'd slept badly, and I found the skin was peeling off the backs of my legs in big sheets, the day got off to a good start. We called in at Cape Foul Wind to walk up to the lighthouse, and then further round the bay to see a colony of seals. We got back to the car park to find two Wekas and a chick (native flightless birds about the size of ducks, with hens' feet and long beaks) trying to dart into the camper v...