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so we are now in Queenstown, in the South Islands. crossed over from north to south with tony christie!!! (Is this the way to Amarillo!?) as well as the Drifters! Anyway, we had a good crossing over and arrived into Picton 3 hours later. Picton was so beautiful, really felt as though we had just landed in Hawaii. From there to Nelson to search for the famous lakes, funnily enough no one had heard of the lakes when we finally arrived in Nelson and it turns out they were nowhere near Nelson, of course, how silly of us not to know that! So we then went a few hours south, found them (really beautiful) and camped there for the night with a campfire and wine celebrating St. David’s Day.

Over to Kaikoura in the next morning as we were swimming with dolphins at 5am!!! Dolphin swimming is a total must for everyone, it was simply amazing! Apx. 400 wild dolphins swimming all around you, jumping overhead, swimming in groups and brushing past you. It was amazing, such a great experience… and to really put the icing on the cake that day, as the boat pulled into the harbour the skipper told up that 2 orca whales (Killer whales) were right in front of the boat. The boat stopped and we spent 20 minutes watch 2 KILLER WHALES swim and play around right next to the boat, it was amazing, you could see their white bellies as they swam around twisting and turning, amazing!!!

Over to Christchurch where we met up with Saz's family friends who kindly not only put us up for the night but fed us with an amazing roasted NZ leg of lamb with cous cous, salad and plenty of wine, fab!

From Christchurch down to Lake Tekapo from where you can see the top of Mount Cook (highest peak in Australasia). decided to do a 4 hour trek to St. Johns Observatory the following morning to see the views and it was worth it. Really pretty views of Mt. Cook. Now we stupidly decided to not follow the map for the walk down and try and create our ‘own little adventure’. BIG MISTAKE! We first of all had to scale a barb-wired fence and then somehow climb down a really steep mountain face, it was not nice and Sez spent most of her time on her bum! Anyway, we finally managed to get down safely and realised that it had only added on loads of extra time to our walk so it would not be recommended!

From the lakes to Wanaka which is where the World Famous Puzzling World is! and there we met up with Hel and Sarah (two of Salty's uni buddies)! so in convoy with them for a few days! great to catch up with them. puzzling world was so much fun, loved the illusion room and for the first time ever salt towered over me!!!

From Wanaka it was down to Queenstown which is where we are now. We were meant to be doing a Sky Dive today but AGAIN ITS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER! Not happy, really gutted in fact but Im sure we’ll manage to do one somewhere! We went out herelast night and had a really good night ... off to Milford Sounds later today for once again, more amazing scenery. The South Islands are just so beautiful, every corner has something else amazing to look at!

hope everyone is well xxx