Franz Josef and the Amazing Glacier!! Tuesday 19th January 2010, Lake Mahinapua to Franz Josef There were a lot of hung over people on the bus at 9:30am this morning. We were 2 of them but I must say we didn't feel half as bad as we did the previous day!!! So after saying goodbye to grumpy Les it was on the bus and on the road! Most people would have been quite happy just sleeping but no Josh our driver had other ideas as there were a few stops to do on the wa...

Monday 18th January 2010 Early start this morning again with the hangovers from hell!!! We left Westport at around 8.30am destination Lake Maninapua. After a short drive we stopped at cape Foulwind and Tauranga Bay here we did the coastal walk stopping at one of New Zealand's largest seal colonies. Today we also stopped to do two more walks one at the Truman track and the second one at the Punakaiki Pancake rocks and blowholes which are suppose to resemble gian...

Sunday 17th January 2010 We were picked up this morning from Nelson at around 8am destination Westport. Before we left Nelson we had a big argument we don’t usually tell you about these but this one is so funny we had to. Suzie was in the shower and she chucked the shampoo out the window by accident, I went blastic because times are hard and it’s a good shampoo and then she broke the new deodorant so we had real row!!! Suzie then climbed on the roof to retri...

Well Hello and apologies for how far behind we have got but we've just been having too much fun and the idea of sitting at a computer for any longer than Facebook takes was not appealing! Were actually now in the North Island so hopefully we want forget too much over the next few blog entries and we should have you all up to date shortly! P.S New Zealand is absolutely beautiful!!!! We love it! P.P.S Please don't be shocked by the amount of nights out we've ...

Monday 11th January 2010 Early start this morning as we were getting pick up by Kiwi Experience at 07.30am so we were up by 6.15am finished our packing and had just enough time to have a coffee before the bus picked us up. Destination Kiakoura!!! The journey only took around 3 hours with a half an hour meal break so not too long at all. While on the bus we got our activities booked for the next few days whale watching this afternoon and dolphin swimming in ...