Hello everyone, Thanks for the messages, especially you ash. It's great to hear about your purchase. Sounds like Huckle has been having fun as well. Hope you all liked the pictures. We have got a load more for you to see when we get back, edd has gone a little bit photo crazy! Edd's beard is pretty big now which you'll see when we get back. Yesterday we climbed Mt Nguaruhoe a.k.a Mt Doom in Lord of the Rings. It was awesome, it's an active volcan...

Hello everyone. We've been in the south island of New Zealand since 23rd January and it's been fantastic. We flew into Christchurch and bought a small campervan the same day. We set off down the east coast of the island and did a loop up towards the west coast. We have seen some amazing lakes and mountains. we went to Mount Cook and saw our first glacier, from a distance. On the Otago peninusula we were really lucky to see yellow eyed penguins close to u...

We are now in Sydney after a 4 hour flight from Perth. We had to spend a while looking for a hostel as it's peak season here but found a place called the Maze that lives up to it's name. We could barely find our room. We arrived late yesterday and today we aren't up to much. Tomorrow we plan to see the harbour and opera house and go to the aquarium. On Tuesday we are off to Christchurch in New Zealand. We have decided to get our own car/campervan so w...

Coral Bay was lovely. It was really hot and sunny and we spent the first day relaxing on the beach then jumping in the water as it was so hot. The snorkelling was good as the reef was really close to the shore. We got to play table tennis at the hostel and I got quite good although I still couldn't beat edd. Edd went on a sea kayaking trip out to the far edge of the reef and got some amazing pictures of turtles and fish. We went on a massive walk round to t...

Our first destination in Australia was Darwin. It's a really small city with not a lot to do in the town. So we decided to hire a 4x4 to visit the national parks in the area. We went to Kakadu park which was interesting but a lot of the roads were closed so we couldn't get to the good waterfalls. It was so hot and sweaty and we were attacked by flies every time we got out of the car so we didn't do any of the long walks. Litchfield national park was l...