Hello again, After our day of glacier walking we set off down the west coast for Wanaka.On the way we stopped at Lake Matheson (known as mirror lake) and made the hour walk round it (with spectacular views of Mt Cook and Mt Tasman).We then drove down to the bottom of the west coast to a small fishing hamlet called Jackson Bay.Here we shared fish and chips at the only eatery for miles, called the craypot - apparently famous for their whitebait sarnies but I don...

Hey guys (or 'kia ora' …bit of kiwi for you there!) Well as you may have noticed we have not been on the blog for a few days as we have been pretty busy. We are now in New Zealand, the weather is currently amazing we have had clear skies since we landed in Christchurch. We didn't stay long in Christchurch, well less than 12 hours in fact and we slept for at least 8 of that. Our flight was a little delayed so ended up arriving at our hostel well after midnig...

Hi guys, Got to New Zealand without too many glitches - minor fail on Jetstar's part…we took off an hour late as they lost the pilot!!Luckily Christchurch was not as rainy as Brisbane, where it literally chucked it down the whole day - slightly glad we left when we did! Martin and I thought we'd just do a bit of a round up of Australia, as we've found after just one day that New Zealand could not have been more different to Oz! (especially beer prices - tha...

Hi guys, I'm going to try and keep this one short after last time!We managed to get down to Brisbane in record time and were at the koala sanctuary, just south of the city by noon. Yes it was open and yes (to our delight) there were koalas! 130 of them to be precise…we got mega snap happy with the first 5 or 6 we saw until we realised that they were literally everywhere with pens ranging from 'kindergarten' koalas to 'bachelor' koalas to 'retired' koalas! We...

Hi everyone, Firstly I think this blog should probably come with a health warning…we've been to a lot of places in the last few days so this may take a while!! I think last time we wrote we were just getting ready to go to the Bundaberg rum factory.We did a tour of the factory which took a couple of hours but it was really interesting.Our guide took us through the whole factory and all the different stages of rum production, with free tasters at each stage ...