Its Saturday today and still in Wanaka.The weather was so good we decided to stay until Thursday and do more walking, then we met up with an English couple and a German guy we met in Lake Takepo so decided to stay until Friday.Then Friday we realised there was a big music festival going on in the town on Saturday so decided to stay until Sunday.The concert is sold out but those without tickets just party on the beech alongside the where the concert is going on, s...

Have been in Wanaka for 2 days, the rain they predicted can late on Tuesday evening and lasted most of the night.We seem to have finally stopped the tent leaking thanks to some, or rather a lot of duct tape.On Tuesday we travelled around 50km to do a walk to Rob Roy's Glacier, it was a 10km walk, it was a nice walk but very windy at the start and it started to rain about half way through the walk up so although we could see the glacier it was a bit misty.By the t...

Got to Queenstown on Sunday and booked bungy jump for Monday morning.Had a look around Queenstown, it's probably the busiest place in New Zealand outside of Auckland.I had one of the famous Fergburger, which is a massive burger in an even bigger bun. Left Queenstown on the coach Monday to do bungy, Dai was still undecided, that was until we got to the cable car that took you across the canyon, then he decided he definitely wasn't.To get to the jump platform 6 of...

As we left Manapouri to get the boat to Doubtful Sound the weather was good.To get to where we were to start canoeing we had a 40 minute boat trip along Manapouri Lake, then a 30 minute bus ride.Once we got to the start of the canoeing the water was so choppy we could not go in there, so we took another boat further into the fiord where it was calm enough to canoe.By this time it was raining again, but apparently the best way to see the fiords is in the rain as i...

The prediction for rain was correct for Thursday; it rained all day, the tent leaked so much we had to put all the stuff in the tumble dryer on Friday morning.Thankfully it was dry on Friday so we drove up to Milford Sounds, it was named after by a welsh man who discovered after Milford Haven where he came from. The drive to Milford Sounds was as good as the drive through the National Parks in America.Once at Milford we went on a cruise around the fiord, which w...