We were picked up at our hotel at 8am by the Beachcomber bus. We were heading to Beachcomber Island for 5 nights. The bus took us to Port Denaru where we boarded a Catamaran for the sail out to the Island. We sailed for around 40 minutes then had to climb aboard smaller boats as the Catamaran was too big to get in close enough to the beach for us to get off. We were able to check in at 10am but couldn't get our bags untill 11.30 so we sat on the beach and wai...

I wandered into the dorm room at 3am where Emma was trying to sleep. She had to get ready for her flight to Fiji. She was on the early morning flight and I wasn't due to fly untill late afternoon. She left our dorm at about 4am but I was passed out drunk so didn't really notice her leaving!!! When I did get up a few hours later, I did a few things in the vity before heading of to the airport. I was flying with Air Pacific and all the staff on the plane we...

I got up and treated myself to a nice soak in the bath before packing up the rest of my stuff and checking out of the hotel. Mum had payed all the bills the night before but they still tried to charge me for a dinner I hadn't eaten. Someone had charged their food to my room!! I got a lift to the airport on the hotel shuttle bus and checked in for my flight to Auckland. I was flying to Auckland to meet up with Emma before we set off for Fiji. I was sad that Mu...

We left Dunedin in the morning and drove to Christchurch. We checked straight into our hotel, the Chateau on the Park, which looked really nice!!!  Once the car was unloaded and the luggage taken to our rooms, we had to return the car to the rental company.  We had lunch in town then jumped on one of the trams.  We got off at the river and went for a punt!!  Seeing as Andrew had spent half the day with us without too much complaining, he ...

We spent most of the morning in the car driving towards Dunedin. We arrived there around lunchtime and headed straight to the info centre. Mum wanted to see the blue penguins and there was a trip leaving at 2pm so we just about had time for a qucik lunch before jumping on a bus to visit the penguins. Andrew wasn't up for wildlife spotting so had stayed in town to do his own thing. The first stop on the penguin tour was a visit to an albatross colony but we di...