We are now at Te Anau and are staying for a few days as they have given rain for the next 2 days (Thursday and Friday).On Saturday we have booked a kayak trip at Doubtful Sounds, so hoping weather is good again by then.

Got to Dunedin on Sunday and stayed until Tuesday.There was not a lot in Dunedin but we did see the world steepest street, and visited the botanical gardens, railway station and town centre.There is a brewery and Cadburys factory there but we resisted visiting either.We stayed a night at Invercargill and visited a hardware shop that has the Burt Munro's bike that he broke the land speed record on.Also in the shop there were loads of other old bikes and American c...

Well we survived Christchurch; we didn't feel any earthquakes while we were there.We left Christchurch and headed south and stayed in Omaora.There was a yellow eyed penguin colony on a nearby beach so we went there for 6:30pm as advised and waited but only 4 penguins turned up at the other end of the beach to the lookout, so all we saw was these little black things waddling in the distance. On Friday 20th we headed in land to Lake Takepo.The drive to the lake wa...

Left Greymouth on Sunday as planned, it was again raining. We drove across Author's Pass but as the weather was not good we could not see all of the mountain ranges, which are supposed to be stunning, so we may cross this pass again on our way back up. We finally stopped at a small coastal town called Akoroa, on the Banks Peninsula, about 1 hour south of Christchurch. The weather here was sunny, hot and no rain. We stayed here a few days just enjoying the sunshi...

We have now stayed 3 nights at a really nice hostel in Greymouth; we spent the first night in the car after being rained out of the tent, and the other two in the hostel.The hostel has an African/Indonesian theme (will add some pics later), with very mellow laid back music being played all day long, which is just as well as we have been stuck in for the past 2 days due to the wind and rain. We are heading across Authors pass tomorrow (Sunday 15th January), towar...