Wednesday 11th March – Waitomo Caught the Waitomo Wanderer bus down to Waitomo – a small probably inbred town which hosts a large amount of caves due to the limestone rocks. We arrived at the legendary black wter rafting company office and met up with our guides who took us black water rafting – basically caving. Got suited up in a wetsuit, helmet, torch etc and got a bus a bit out of town and arrived at the site. Quite strange because if you didn’t know...

Sunday 8th March – Taupo Because I had become a daredevil since entering new Zealand, I signed myself up for a sky dive. After a reasonably fitful nights sleep – probably due to the fact that the next day I would throw myself out of an aeroplane, I was ready at 11 for the pick up. Unfortunately however due to the wind and clouds, the jump was delayed until 4pm so i now had 5 hours to occupy myself and wait to jump – waiting is by far the worst thing when y...

Day 24 - Kaikoura to Wellington - March 2nd A day of coach journeys, a ferry ride and a lot of sleep. The end! Can't really say much more than that! Nice day again weather wise, so nice to chill out on the deck of the ferry. Wellington is nothing like anything we saw in the south island - much more city like. Lots of roads, traffic, buildings, noise, people and so on. Nice enough though to have a wander around. Tuesday 3rd March - Wellington Had a wander arou...

Day 15 to 20 - Queenstown to 25th FebruaryThe Adrenaline Capital of the World! Have been here for 5 days and pretty much everything has mish mashed into one big blur! Unfortunately the weather started off pretty badly, but to be honest I think this suited pretty much everyone due to the heavy night of drinking at the base bar and the world bar to celebrate the end of the Kiwi Bus of the South Island. Me, Rich, Fabian, Hayley, Fiona, Emily, Laura and Charlotte (no...

Day 12 – Franz Josef Glacier Hike Pretty awesome day today – not often can you say you spent the day hiking the world’s steepest walkable glacier, and one of only 3 glaciers in the world surrounded by rainforest...and the fact that you were hiking on ice! Put on the crampons (not croupons or tampons) and led by our guide called Kruddy who we then nicknamed Poo we explored 13km of crevasses, big ice holes, waterfalls and at one point water – having to cr...