Kia ora! We havent blogged for ages so this might take awhile! Earth quakes, a brush with the law and a city stright out of an apocolypes movie... We left Hokitika last week and headed south towards Franz Josef, a glacier village in the mountains. On the way we stopped at Okorito lagoon. We intended to go for a gentle kayak for an hour but got talked into doing a three hour trip down a river that nearly killed us on the way back as the tide was coming in. Nices...

Kia Ora! From our last blog we have been to Wellington the Capital of NZ for two days. Went to the Te Papa Museum which had a lot of cool stuff in, giant squid and maori artifacts the highlights. Tasted some really good food at a tiny Malaysian cafe and had the most amazing pies at Trisha's Pies. Had a couple pf beers at Macs Brewery which was an old shipyard warehouse converted to a bar very cool, then went and watched Breaking Dawn, epic! Caught the ferry fro...

Kia Ora! Its been an eventful 5 days since we picked up the car in Auckland. We headed north to one of the most beautiful little campsites, right on the beach yet again clear blue seas and pink sand, cooked our first camp meal of pasta and had the worlds coldest shower. Spent the evening reading on the beach as the sun went down. On to Paihia in the Bay of Islands, a backpackers haven with lots of elderly Brits. We camped out again and went into town for a few ...

Our last blog from Auckland as we pick up our the juce box tomorrow our speedy Daihatsu and get on the road to explore the rest of New Zealand. Today we got up and got going early for the ferry to Waiheke Island. It promised and delivered in every way! They have a saying on the island, "if you're not bare foot, you're overdressed", and we could definately get on board with that. The island is completely beautiful, blue seas, dense forest and white san...

Kia Ora from Auckland! After a 13 and a half hour flight from LAX we arrived on the other side of the world. Quantas is our new fav airline. After getting through customs and getting our tent back form the Bio security lab (they said it was dirty) we checked in at our hostel on the outskirts of Auckland city centre, which is an old Tongan Royal house. Had a well needed nap and set off to explore, we strolled along the harbour which has the bluest water we've eve...