Ben woke up with a stinking hangover and Ria was not impressed and not forgiving either!! We left Franz Josef at 07:30am way to early alot of driving to do today!! The weather had continued where it left off raining loads......our first stop was only down the road at Lake Matheson the reflextion lake. Obviously with the rain it didn't work but there was a amazing view of the Fox Glacier's. We carried on driving and passed through Haast Pass a beautiful dr...

Nobody wanted to get up this morning as our cross dressing night had turned into a skinny dipping party down at the lake (Ben and I excluded!) The replacement bus picked us up at 10am and took us to the Bushmans Centre in Pukekura. Really didnt like this place, it demonstated how western NZ used to be like with possum trapping and deer recovery using helipcopters. The guy here was really rude but he didnt care. After this pointless stop we made our way directly t...

After a nice comfortable sleep in our double room in Westport it was up early to have one of the funniest and best days travelling!! We left Westport 9:30am and arrived at Cape Foulwind 20 minutes later. Here did a 1 hour walk along the cliff top overlooking untouched west coast beaches. After 40 minutes walking in sunshine we got to the main attraction the colony of Seals. There must have been arround 200 of them having a morning play on the rocks and small pool...

Our Kiwi Experience driver picked us up along with Max (great guy) at 8am from Christchurch and explained that he would be taking us to meet the big coach in Murchinson, on the west coast of the South Island. We would get ther by travelling through the beautiful Arthurs Pass. The scenery started almost immediately. Rolling hills, rich green grass, clear blues rivers and lots of sheep and cows. It was stunning. Our first stop was St James' Walkway in the Bulle...

Arrived in Christchurch pretty late, after going thru passport control and quarantine we finally got to the hostel at 130am. Stayed at Base Backpackers in the centre. Not the best hostel we've stayed in unless you enjoy mingling with drunk 18 year olds! It was a nice change to have to put a jumper on as the temperature was at least 10 degrees cooler than when we left Melbourne. After having a sleep we got up to explore Christchurch and were left slightly dis...