We're off to Australia again tomorrow and our time in New Zealand is almost over after spending 8 months here. There was a lot of things to sort out once we got back to Cokers the main thing being selling the car, so we traipsed around all the backpackers, put it on Gumtree, the local papers , auction site and a free online paper. I was stressing as we were leaving soon and over $4,000 was tied up in the car if it didn't sell we were screwed but as usual my worr...

This small quaint town is where you come to see all the small penguins return to the beach for the night after a day at sea. At the visitor centre it tells you how many had been coming in each day and when the best time is for that evening. There's two lots of penguins that come in at different times the yellow eyed and then the others (can't remember the name).It seems that the town has got a bit cheeky and now charge you $20 to see one of the colonies so as I'm...

Dunedin is the university city of the South island, it had quite a good feel to it even though it was the school holidays still. We stayed here two nights had a good wander around putting up ad's for our car as went. Our flights were already booked to go back to Australia on the 4th February so we only had a short amount of time to sell the car and if someone in Dunedin wanted it then we'd be more than happy to sell it here and bus our way back to Christchurch. ...

We dragged ourselves away from Queenstown heading to Invervcargil which is the furthest southern town of the south island and during this time our stretch of good luck with regards to weather finally ceased. We had planned on staying at Invercargil for a night but once we arrived we saw little point as it was nothing more than an industrial town no really touristy things to see and do apart from the see the sign posts that indicate how far away you are from othe...

This was the place that we had been looking forward to the most. Queenstown is the adventure sports capital of the world if there's something death defying or impossibly stupid to do then you can find it here. We found ourselves another hostel /garden tent set up again with brilliant views over Queenstown and the lake, we would have a few drinks admiring the view a few times during our stay. As well as being for adrenaline freaks Queenstown is also known for its...