Hi everyone, Wow looks like our last blog was the first day in Wellington. So now we're half way up the north island. More scary is that there is just over two weeks to go.... So we spent the day in Wellington - we visited Te Papa. The big museum - its very eclectic with Maori history, giant squids, volcanic eruptions. That took the best part of the day. Luckily we left just in time to make it to the chinese New Year parade. This was way better than the one we ...

Hi guys, Just a quick blog. Since our last blog we went to the cinema in Blenheim. It was pretty small almost like a front room more than a cinema but it was quite nice to have an evening out. That finished about 8:30 and as the light was fading we headed off to find somewhere to stay. We found a small DOC site about half way between Blenheim and Picton which had some good coastal views. Yesterday we left the DOC pretty late as we knew we only had 20k to go to ...

Helloo, well we hav been very busy scince our last blog. . . we stayed the night just outside Franz Joseph then headed north - our last blog was from the lovely seaside town of Hokitika. We carried on driving to Greymouth and stayed the night in a little glorified garage forecourt, greymouth was a little un-inspiring but i did get a bit of beach time in the next morning so thats cool. the sea here on the west coast is too dangerous to swim in - the waves are so ...

Hi Guys, Sorry there has been no photos from NZ wifi is both slow and general not free out here. Luckily we've found a library and while it is free its still really slow. So Yesterday we climbed on and in a glacier. We joined a guided tour at about 10am in the morning. Donned some lovely boots (and smelly socks), huge rain coats and crampons and set out to the glacier. Apparently its the lowest glacier to sea level in the world. We got a short bus ride to the...

Hello from the Franz Joseph Glacier! So since we last blogged we spent the morning in and arround Wanaka window shopping and eating sarnies by the lake. In the afternoon we went to puzzling world! And spent an hour and a half running arround a giant maze! Funky. Then we headed up the road a bit - not too far and camped by the side of lake Wanaka. It was a very popular site as the music didn't stop till 1:30 am . . . Chris is still whinging about the sand flies...