So the South Island started with me throwing up…I thought I'd gotten over the travel sickness of my childhood but apparently not as I couldn't stand the waves on the ferry over to Picton. They were huge and the boat was rocking from side to side for well over 3 hours L But to keep my spirits high the first stop of the day was to do wine and liquor tasting in the Marlborough vineyards before heading to Abel Tasman National Park - one of the most popular national...

After 29 weeks traveling and 18 countries visited I am onto my last…New Zealand. Here we joined the 'Stray' bus - an organized hop on hop off bus traveling down from Auckland to Queenstown. Well Nicki joined the bus in Auckland, I had a job interview in Sydney so had to fly into Hamilton and the adventure began from there…. If I was to tell you to meet the bus at its first evening point in Hahei that I had to get an airport shuttle, a bus to Thames, a bus ...

The final section in our Spaceship was about to come, starting with Magnetic Island. The island was originally a lookout used in WW1 so there wasn't much to do apart from walk up to some of the hideouts and get great views of the ocean and the rest of the island. We hired a topless car for the day, which looked similar to something Barbie and Ken would drive around in, to drive around the island. There are only 30km of road, so we mainly sunbathed on a couple of ...

Well the rain continued up the coast with us to Surfers Paradise and needless to say we didn't surf or sunbathe on a beach at all! The city is famous as it has great surfing, is the only large city with skyscrapers on the coast in Australia and is literally right on the beach. The skyline is pretty awesome and we got some really good views on an Aquaduck tour, a land and boat cruise for an hour round the city. I thought we were supposed to be quacking like ducks ...

After leaving Noosa we went to visit my friend Alana in Moolooluba. I hadn't seen her for 4 ½ years since Camp Scatico so was lovely to finally have the catch up we had been planning for so long. We hung out at the beach, ate great lunch and just reminisced about the good old times before heading onwards to Rainbow Beach, Gympie and Hervey Bay - the starting point for our Fraser Island 4x4 self drive trip. Fraser Island was just absolutely brilliant, we had a fa...