We set off for our last journey together to Christchurch. It took us a couple of hours to get there and then everyone had to get off the coach as they were changing buses for the rest of the trip. The bus had stopped just opposite the airport so I waited with Nasreen, Kristina and Gemma for about half an hour to say goodbye. When it came to saying goodbye Nasreen got a bit tearful as we'd travelled together since Auckland over three weeks ago. It was really sa...

We had a really early start this morning to get to Geraldine in time to do our white water rafting. We stopped off briefly at Lake Tekapo and took a photo of the Church of the Good Shepherd, which was the first church built and then we arrived at Geraldine, a small and quite pretty town at 11an. The rafters (9 of us) headed to the rafting office whilst the others walked around the farmers market. We got picked up by the most casual (and one of the maddest!) men ...

I said my goodbyes to Catherine and then went to meet Gemma, Nasreen and Kristina outside Base hostel to get a bus to the north of the south island. We managed to get seats altogether and we had quite a long journey ahead of us to get to Mount Cook. We stopped off a couple of times to take photos of mount cook in the distance as it was such a beautiful clear day and we also got a good picture of the mirror lakes. We arrived at Mt Cook at 1.30pm and the four of u...

Catherine and I headed across the road to book in for our half day of Canyoning. There was a group of 6 girls in total and we arrived at the Queenstown canyon and had to get all geared up. This involved putting wetsuits, life jackets and helmets on. Each of us had an individual name on our helmets to identify us for the photo's that they'd be taking of us. Catherine was Spunky and I was Kesha! We then walked across a stream and climbed some rocks and arrived ...

Catherine and I had to check out of our rooms by 10am so that we could move into another to share room together so I had to wake up after only a few hours sleep as I had gone to bed at 4:30am. The other room wouldn't be available till 1pm so I put my things in storage and waited for Catherine. When she arrived at the reception area we bumped into Huw and all headed out for breakfast. We grabbed some pastries from Fergbakery and went and sat down by the lake. We...