Kia Ora from Rotorua. We (Jim and I) have been here for three days now and have just about got used to the smell. The sulphur lakes surrounding the area make everything and everywhere smell of strong egg.We spent our first few days walking around and taking in the sights, mainly the boiling mud pools as you can see. Today we decided that we should try to quench our new found thirst for adrenaline and go caving. We had an amazing time. I was originally going to go...

Look what I did!! We woke up this morning, as usual, had breakfast, had a shower, jumped out of a plane! Ha ha. It was amazing. We were incredibly lucky to have been able to jump from Taupo this morning, as some people had waited for six days without being able to jump due to the weather. We made our way to the sky dive centre at eight o clock this morning, got kitted up and boarded our plane. I was the last on, so obviously the first out. Everybody else got to ...

Hello hello. We are currently in Taupo after spending yesterday night in Wellington, New Zealand's capital. Luckily, our arrival in Wellington coincided with one of the Hurricane's (the wellington local rugby team) super 14's games against a south african team, the 'Cheetahs'. The Hurricanes team consisted of a few All Black players, eg Piri Weepu, Tana Umaga, Rodney So'oialo and Ma'a Nonu (im sure dad will know who they are) so the st...

We are back in kaikoura for one night as a stop over before going to Wellington tomorrow, thus ending our South island voyage of discovery! Kaikoura actually looks different than it did last time we were here because there has been heavy snowfall on the mountains surrounding the town. It really is very nice!The South Island has been awesome. The scenery is incredible and never stops amazing me. Even though we have had a few days where nothing much has been going ...

Hello from Queenstown. On the way here, we stopped at a place called 'puzzling world', which was rather puzzling. It was filled with loads of weird illusions, that dont look so good in photos, but it managed to keep us entertained for 2 hours. We went luging today and have just got back. It was a really good laugh. The setting was pretty amazing, as you can probably tell from the picture. The luges went suprisingly fast, considering they are no more than...