Arrived in Cairns pretty hungover on the evening of the 26th. Our friends Charlotte and Lyndsay from Byron Bay were there but I didnt feel very well (self induced) and we were all shattered and had a sky dive the next morning so we all just had an early night. Unfortunately a sweedish lad who was also in our room snored uncontrobaly and so i ended up wearing ear plugs and listening to my mp3 player to try and drown him out! We were up early the next morning, and...

Arrived at Beach Comber at 5pm and saw that 3 of the lads from our Kiwi bus were staying on the island which was cool, so we partied with them for the night and watched another village show which was very funny. the weather is going from bad to worse and it rained pretty much all day so we started drinking early. Then our friend jennie from the Kiwi bus turned up which was brilliant. So we had another pretty big night with everyone. It was still cloudy when we ...

Arrived in Fiji in the evening, and checked into our hostel and then went straight to do our washing. We are leaving all our valuables and most of our bags on the main island and just take the essentials as apparently you dont need a lot. Had a nice teriaki snapper for tea and went to bed early. The next morning we set off for our first island (mantaray) where we were going diving. It was not what i expected at all. basically all the islands have one resort so y...

12th May 2009 Franz Josef Went this morning to do the Glacier walk. Me and gem were in the 2nd fastest group, and had a guide called Alex. We didnt really want to be in that group but there are 3 girls on the Kiwi bus who noone really likes and we didnt want to end up with them because all they do is moan and i couldnt stand that for 8 hrs...and it turns out (when we got back) we found out all that had done is moan so i am very glad. We had a realy good group ac...

Nelson 8th Arrived in nelson after a few hours of driving. Stopped off at lake Rotoiti on the way, it was absolutely stunning. I cant belive how gorgeous all of the scenery is. There isnt really much to say blog wise. The pictures do more justice. Chatted to a few more people on the bus. Turns out everyone was quite hungover when we were picked up in Wellington so I think it will be early ones tonight. Had a roast ham dinner at the hostel and a couple of gla...