What's going on...how come I seem to be getting all the boring day blogs to write where we've been driving all day, and Scott gets all the excitement! Today was again about getting from A to B - from Hanmer Springs to Fox Glacier - a 6-7 hour drive via the Lewis Pass to Greymouth on the west coast and then down the west coast past Franz Josef Glacier to the small alpine town of Fox, named after the Fox Glacier. Despite being in the van all day I was hoping for fi...

Where's Flipper?! We set off in good time for Kaikoura on the East Coast of South Island on our new quest to see Flipper and his friends. Ju had booked us on a swimming with dusky dolphins tour in the Pacific Ocean at 12.30pm - apparently they are the most acrobatic breed of dolphins in existence and known for their aerial displays. Kaikora is an ideal place to view wildlife as the sea waters are spectacularly deep just off the coast as the sea bed drops away int...

Today was really all about covering ground and getting to South Island. We left the Tongariro National Park at about 8.30am knowing we had a 6-7 hour drive ahead of us and a 3 hour ferry crossing. Initially the weather was clear with breaks of sunshine allowing us to get some panoramic photos of the volcanoes and crossing we had walked the previous day. As we headed down the south west coast of North Island towards Wellington we turned off the highway to a beach-...

5am... what are we doing?! Oh yeah, getting up so we can set off on another epic walk. I didn't feel too bad this morning. We had watched a few episodes of 'Always Sunny in Philadelphia' last night before bed - a hilarious must watch series. I had also slept pretty well last night thanks to a set of blankets which had been donated to me by another couple who had also hired a Wicked camper. Feeling charged and confident after our recent Volcano exercise in Chile w...

Today was all about glow-worms!...oh and lots of driving.....an obligatory part of our trip to NZ since we are trying to cover so much ground in just 2 weeks. We left the sunshine and warmth of Auckland and headed south towards Waitomo and the infamous glow worm caves. The drive took 3 hours or so but seemed less as we set the pace slow and took in some amazing scenery of rolling hills and farmland. As we neared Waitomo the sky became grey and we saw our first f...