Mountains, lakes, clear blue skies, hills, winding roads, sheep, blue water and green forest! These are everywhere in New Zealand! Everywhere is middle earth, every creek, culvert and river has a name notably: martins creek, martins bridge, Harrison's cove, Harrison's river and Harrison's creek! It is compulsory to say "eh" after everything you say! There are Campervans travelling everywhere, every direction! The all blacks are better than the Aussies at rugby be...

We arrived back in Christchurch for our last day in New Zealand. We were sad to leave but also excited for the next part of our adventure! We had a mission planned which involved driving tanks, entering a night horror maze and visiting the International Antarctic Centre however due to the earthquake in Christchurch last year most of the attractions were now closed. Luckily the International Antartic Centre was still open so we headed straight there! On arrival we...

This has to be two of the most amazing days we have had in New Zealand! We rocked up to Kaikoura - which means to eat crayfish in Maori - and had lunch in a small cafe overlooking the ocean sparkling in the sunlight! Beautiful! This cafe turned out to be the encounter cafe for swimming with dolphins so after lunch we booked a swimming with dolphins encounter for the morning, not really too sure what it was all about! Straight after we headed to the whale watch si...

Today we drove to Hanmer Springs, a small holiday resort on the Lewis pass surrounded by mountains with ski slopes near by! We had come here to go to the thermal spa but saw a sign for crazy golf on the way in so walked over only to find out its not just crazy golf but an adventure maze! Yes adventure maze with a puzzle and prize at the end after talking to the ancient temple god Indra! Pretty heavy stuff!!! So off we ran to work out the hidden message and beat e...

We had heard about some rocks that resembled pancakes that we just so happened to be passing on our way to Westport. This intrigued us, as we both like rocks and pancakes, so we took this opportunity to merge both our interests into one! We found a small pull in bay and got into position to take some professional photographs of these lustful rocks. When we stared at our view I was unable to see the pancake rocks until Sophie pointed them out to me. These rocks we...