The next day was to involve a little more driving than we had been used to as we were heading as far north as you can go in a 2 wheel drive vehicle to Cape Tribulation and on the way we intended taking in some of the Daintree Rainforest. It is within the jungles of northern Queensland that they film "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" so we were keen to do a bit of exploring in the jungle ourselves to see if it is as scary as its made out to be! In ord...

The next stop was the lovely seaside town of Port Douglas however on the way we stopped to take in the nearby Crystal Cascades creek walk. We soon realised that walking in 30° 's is a very different experience than the temperatures we had grown accustomed to walking in during our stay in New Zealand and about 3 minutes into the walk we were sweating profusely and wondering if this was such a good idea. Fortunately it was a pretty short walk as the so called Crys...

So after a pretty painless couple of flights we arrive in Cairns on schedule at lunch time. Now immigration is never one of my favourite parts of arriving in a new country as even though I know I am doing nothing wrong the on the spot questions always make me feel like a criminal. Imagine then my face when we get to the immigration desk and there is a lady waiting for us in order to "ask us a few questions" I could feel my blood pressure and stress leve...

Before leaving Lake Tekapo the following morning we decided to take in their river walk which was estimated to take around 2 hours. The walk itself as walks go was ok apart from the dead poisoned rabbit that we had to walk past followed by the fly infested sheep's placenta lying in a field that we had the misfortune to come across when we were almost back at the van. I now understand why they don't want you around farming areas during lambing season because those...

So the next stop was Mount Cook which was always going to be a bit of a gamble as it is one of the wettest parts of New Zealand and Mount Cook is notorious for being hidden in a thick blanket of cloud and many people who visit never get to see the unusually shaped peak. We arrived late in the afternoon and as we were nearing mount cook true to form there were blue skies however there was a thick band of cloud covering the peaks of the Mackenzie mountain range inc...