So our next destination after Dunedin was the MacKenzie mountain range and in particular the star of the show, the tallest mountain Mount Cook. It was quite a long drive from where we were and with time on our side we decided to take an overnight stop in a small town called Waimate at Kelsey's Bush Animal Rescue Park. On the road to Waimate we passed through a town called Moeraki home to the much photographed Moeraki boulders. As you will see from the photo the b...

After enjoying a few days in the country it was on to the south islands second biggest town of Dunedin. The name Dunedin is apparently gaelic for Edinburgh so we were hoping to find a bit of a home from home. We stopped at a few scenic points along the way before arriving in the town centre around lunch time. We parked up and headed to the tourist info to get a town map and see what trouble we were going to get into for the next few days. Only five minutes out th...

The next couple of days were to be spent exploring some of the more beautiful parts of the south island in The Catlins. There is a scenic drive which takes you from Invercargill to Dunedin with specific points of interest marked along the way. The first stop for us was New Zealand's most southerly point in a town called Bluff which turned out to be pretty duff as the town was really bleak and offered nothing other than a lookout point to the open ocean where the ...

Our next stop on the road down south was the town of Invercargill the most southerly town in the south island. We hadn't really done any research on Invercargill and therefore had no idea what this town had to offer so the first stop was the tourist info office. As it turned out there really wasn't much on offer in Invercargill so what was going to be a 2-3 night stopover was soon cut to 1 night! The information site was attached to the museum so we spent an hour...

On our way out of Queenstown the next morning we couldn't resist stopping at the Kawarau Bridge, home to the worlds first commercial bungy jump. We had no intention of jumping ourselves but they have a fantastic viewing platform for you to watch the other nutters jumping. It was hilariously entertaining to see the terror in their faces and know that there was no terror headed our way! After an hour or so at the bridge we had some lunch in the van before getting o...