Coming to end.... have just come back from my final organised activity and about to slowly make my way back up to New Plymouth where I'm due to arrive friday afternoon just in time for the weekend! I left Franz Josef and all the rain yesterday morning to continue up the coast which again was stunning! Not long out of Franz Josef and we hit sunshine which was nice. On the way, we stopped at a cafe called Bushman's Cafe where you can see red deer and other wildlif...

I'm finally dry! After being soaked to the bone up the Franz Josef Glacier today. It was worth it though, very strange seeing a glacier in the middle of a rain forrest, plus we got a fair way up it to, so yet again my poor legs are suffering! The whole of the Westland of south island are in general very wet and remote, but absolutely stunning! I'll pick up where I left off shall I anyway... I DID IT! I did my bungy jump! Only just though as I told them about ...

Hangover, Whiplash and Oversleeping are my first feelings in Queenstown! I was only in Christchurch for a night, but I sure experienced it! One of Jo's friends Zhaine now lives in Christchurch and I met him in New Plymouth last time I was visiting Jo, so Zhaine decided he and his boss were going to show me a good time in Christchurch. We started off in a sports bar playing pool and drinking 2 litre jugs of Tui, my intentions of an early night were soon out of th...

Here in am in the South island, beautiful place shame about the weather! Have been pretty busy past few days so I'll start where I left off in Wellington. So the weather started to turn on sunday whilst I was in Wellington, I was really hoping that I'd leave the bad weather behind as I left the North Island on the ferry but unfortunately it followed me :(. I arrived in Picton, a small town on the Queen Charlotte Sound about midday and immediately got picked up f...

Oh my god! I am in so much pain! Really wasn't the brightest idea I've had to start off my hiking experience with I quote 'challenging 18km hike' but it was the Tongariro Crossing where Mt Doom from Lord of the Rings is located so it was worth it, and I did make it in the end after taking it at my own pace. I very early told Jo to go on ahead as she wanted to tackle Mt Doom summit as well, and it was very clear early on that there was no way I'd be doing that! I...