Day 151, 152 - Greymouth to Westport to Hanmer Springs, South Island - Thursday 15th, Friday 16th March 2012 Rain, rain, rain!! Why is it that when we want to walk and see the amazing scenery it rains!! With the weather not being on our side we started our drive to Greymouth. A couple of weeks ago someone put a flyer on the windscreen of our camper advertising an amazing campsite in Greymouth with free WI-FI, hot showers and free food from the local bakery at 4...

Day 149, 150 - Franz Josef & the Glaciers, South Island - Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th March 2012 After breakie we drove for a couple of hours until we reached the town of Franz Josef. Once there, we went to the visitors centre and booked glacier climb for the next day. With a day to kill we decided to drive to the neighbouring local town and did an hour walk / climb that took us up to a point that had 360 views over the area. The sun was out and the sky cle...

Day 147, 148 - Haast & Jackson Bay, South Island - Sunday 11th, Monday 12th March 2012 We spent the majority of the morning cleaning out the van and checking every nook and cranny for our furry little friend. Strangely we didn't see him but we could see where he had been by following his droppings and tiny little patches of wee! They lead us to our little food cupboard where he had knarred through our packet of biscuits and half eaten three of them, greedy l...

Day 146 - Milford Sounds, South Island - Friday 9th, Saturday 10th March 2012 This morning we had a few "admin" jobs to do at the bungy shop. The videos of us jumping and the photos we had paid for would not down load from their internet site which was really annoying. So we told the staff our problems and they asked us to wait an hour whilst they got the site where we did the bungy to sort it. So we waited in the shop and used their internet until an ...

Day 145 - The Nevis Bungy day!! Around Queenstown, South Island - Thursday 8th March 2012 We woke up with dry mouths and turning stomachs………………..only joking! We actually felt surprising ok and not that nervous - let's see how we feel when we're standing looking over the edge! After a shower we walked into town and to the bungy centre; after checking in we were weighed, given our numbers and told the bus would pick us up in 30 minutes and so we killed...