With one cheap night and one completely free night on the DOC sites we were heading to Havelock today to a campsite recommended to us by someone who stayed there a couple of weeks ago. Before we set off there we stopped off in Nelson to use the internet at the library, as we desperately needed to plan the USA stage of our trip. After three hours in the library we headed to the beach to have some lunch and found that there was a free concert on. There were loads ...

Happy birthday Mum. On the road again to get to the ferry, this time we were passing the a road we'd visited a couple of weeks ago in the awful rain, today the weather was stunning. We drove for a few hours then visited the "Pancake rocks" where we took some photos and had lunch.We drove to within 3 hours of the ferry and pitched for the night on a sandfly ridden DoC. We went on a little historic walk through an old railway station, bridge, and tunnel, ...

We slept pretty well in a bed for a change but it was now time to rough it for a couple of days at the DoC campsites.We had to be back in Picton at the far north-east of the island within three days so it was time to get some miles under our belt. It was 11 am by the time we were actually off but we had a great drive for about four hours stopping at the view point for cheese and crisp butties for lunch, good stuff.We managed to avoid numerous dangerous driving ma...

This morning, Tom was sat waiting for to Rachael to come back from the bathroom when he heard a foreign lady having an argument with someone. Turned out that someone was Rachael! When Rach went for a shower, as per usual there was a queue, she finally got to the front when this particular lady must have seen Rachael as an easy target and decided to push in front of her saying they were in a rush and her little girl needed a shower. Clearly Rach was having none ...

The security on the campsite/Rugby field was really good and we even managed to get some good sleep last night. Having had enough of the madness here we agreed to drive on for a few hours and return to Queenstown in a couple of days on our way back up towards the ferry. So we set off to do the number One in "Kiwi Things to Do", Milford Sound. Knowing absolutely nothing about it, other than where it was on a map we set off. As we drove the wind steadily ...