Hi Everyone, Drove this mornign from Queenstown to Mount Cook - highest mountain in New Zealand. The lake by the mountian, is so blue you cant believe it until you see it with your own eyes! I took several pictures but I am sure they wont show the true blue olour. Thinks its because the lake gets glacier water into it and its full of certain minerals or something. Gettign to Mount Cook, Ichecked into the YHA as its the onyl real accomodation for the night oth...

Hi all, Got about 6 days blogging to catch up on...so here goes. December 17th - spent the morning white water rafting, then afterwards decided to hike up to the top of the hill over queenstown. theres a cable car that goes up, but thought it would do me good to walk it. Well it was extremely steep and took over an hour. getting tot he top I was covered in sweat as it was hot and humid. So, in the mornign my arms got a workout and int he afternoon it was my le...

Hi all, So decided what to do last night and booked it....white water rafting down the Shotover River...was meant to be a grade 3 bits a 4 rafting session (they go up to 6 apperently) Well this morning woke up early as the seesion stared at 8.15am. It had been raining most of the night. The drive to the rafting station was pretty scary with the road hanging to the side of the cliff going up the valley. When we got there the head instructor said the water was ...

Hi all, Well this morning, 15th December, I drove from Te Anau to Manapouri to be able to board the "Fiordland Explorer" on an overnight cruise of Doubtful Sound. First we took a high powered catamaran accross lake Manapouri and then onto a coach for a 22km drive over the mountain, on a road only built in the 60s for the local HEP station which now produces something like 15% of all NZs power. After the coach, it was 1pm and onto the boat/ship. A bra...

Hi all, Well this morning, 15th December, I drove from Te Anau to Manapouri to be able to board the "Fiordland Explorer" on an overnight cruise of Doubtful Sound. First we took a high powered catamaran accross lake Manapouri and then onto a coach for a 22km drive over the mountain, on a road only built in the 60s for the local HEP station which now produces something like 15% of all NZs power. After the coach, it was 1pm and onto the boat/ship. A bra...