Just a quick note - we're all packed and ready to go. We can see Mount Luxmore (the highest pint of our walk) from our van on this site - it's looking quite black this evening although still lovely and sunny down here! Seems strange to think it's cold with you, more snow as well, but maybe we'll be the same tomorrow night ...... Off for a walk now ... we may be some time.....!! (back Wednesday) xxxx P.S. Like your addition to the 'song' Paul! Everyone else ...

Composed on a very long and very wet drive last week (acknowledgements to 'Camp Grenada'!): Hello Paul, hello Rozzy,From the country next to AussiePlease don't think that we're complaining,But since we got here it hardly has stopped raining. We went walking somewhere boggy,Now our trainers are all soggy,And they make the van all smelly,And we have to stay inside without a telly. And the campsite that is veryClose to ours has dysentery,And that's really not tre...

Hi all, Just a quick one from Dunedin. The albatrosses were fantastic, saw a few with chicks, but none flying. So after the visit to the colony, we hung around the headland waiting and hoping. Eventually they started flying, and we saw loads, some flying very close to us - awesomely close! 'Freedom camping' last night outside Dunedin - more black flies!! and back into D this morning. We've been to the famous Victorian railway station, complete with tiles from ...

Hello again! We left Angie's yesterday and headed to Oamaru down the coast. Theres a Blue Penguin colony here, so naturally I wanted to see them. Like Shearwaters they only come ashore at dusk (they are so titchy, 30 cm (the smallest penguin), and need to avoid predation). It's a semi-urban colony that needs constant protection - so weirdly enough they have had to erect a grandstand-type thing with special floodlights so people can watch without disturbing them...

Hello again! We left Angie's yesterday and headed to Oamaru down the coast. Theres a Blue Penguin colony here, so naturally I wanted to see them. Like Shearwaters they only come ashore at dusk (they are so titchy, 30 cm (the smallest penguin), and need to avoid predation). It's a semi-urban colony that needs constant protection - so weirdly enough they have had to erect a grandstand-type thing with special floodlights so people can watch without disturbing them...