Lake Mahinapua The following morning we left for Lake Mahinapua, this is where the legendary Poo Party is held. We had been told what the theme for the night was prior to arrival, so we stopped at a town 45mins before our hostel and gathered bits and pieces for our masterpieces. We got to the hostel around 4pm and were met by the owner, Uncle Les. He's a 86 yr old man with a massive beard and a huge reputation for having good nights. Uncle Les cooked up a mean...

Westport The next day we got up early and met the group of people who we would be travelling with for the next 6days down the East coast. Our driver (Ponsy) was hilarious and introduced some ground rules, if anyone says MINE to answer a question you have to do 10 press ups and the other rule was if you get up to any mischief or if your late for the bus etc you would be fined 2 dollars. All the money went to a charity helping Christchurch's clear up. One the w...

Nelson We got up early, cooked breakfast and jumped on our kiwi bus which turned out to be a mini bus. The driver (Dylan) was a head case but so funny and got us to Nelson in his record time. This meant we got first dibs on beds J That afternoon we climbed a steep hill which leads you to "The Centre of New Zealand", we decided to try and run up it. We soon came to realise our fitness had disappeared into thin air. Ross Matthews was not a happy with himself L B...

Kiakoura After a long 12 hour journey practically travelling from one end of the south island to the other, we arrived in the small town of Kiakoura. We got taken straight to our hostel and settled into our home for the next few days. We had an early night as we had a busy few days ahead. The next morning we got up around 10am and cooked ourselves a bacon sandwich. We then walked down the road to a place called the Dolphin Encounter, we then boarded a boat an...

Queenstown As we left Sydney to fly to Queenstown we were all very excited as most people who have travelled say New Zealand is a better version on Australia. We left early once again and after a short 3hr flight we arrived at the small airport of Queenstown. We soon booked into our BASE hostel and got settled in. We went downstairs to the hostels booking agent and got some activities sorted out, they included river surfing, bungy jumps, sky dives, canyon swin...