hey everyone. we are now in auckland, since rotarua we traveled up to mt magnamui (beach town) were we spent one day. we didnt arrive till the afternoon so we just spent our time walking along the beach. the next day we moved on again and arrived in to auckland late afternoon, stopping at one of our worst hostels yet, we like to call it the windowless box. auckland harbour is really nice, full of sailing boats and loving blue water. the following day we spen...

Hi everyone, hope ur all ok we are now in Rotorua but will update you on the events since queenstown. We left queenstown and headed up to town called Dunedin, we checked out the most photographed building in NZ, the old railway. This town is called the Edinburgh of the south and has alot of scottish influence. we left dunedin the next day for lake tekapo and our first stop was the worlds steepest street - wouldnt like to walk to the top of that everyday! next w...

Hi everyone - heres an update of what we have been gettin up to in New Zealand! After Christchurch we caught the Magic bus through the rugged coastline to town called Kaikoura. Stopping en route to see a fur seal colony upclose. we then got to our got to our hostel and dumped our things, had a quick walk through the town and headed out to do our whale watching. the sea was a little choppy and the boat used all the latest equipment to track the giant sperm whale...

hey. just a quick note to let you all know we have arrived in new zealand. we set off from our hostel in melbourne at 5am, after saying our goodbyes to hazel and luke, we got a taxi to the airport to get our 7am flight to sydney. our flight from melbourne set off 20 mins late so by the time we arrived in sydney we had 50 mins to got off the plane change terninals and jump back on to the christchurch flight. luckly we just made it in time, however, we were worri...

hi everyone! sorry for the lack of blogs but we have been so busy everyday we havent had chance to get on here. New years Eve: We went early in the morning to have breakfast with my mum and sis and then we headed back to make our picnic for the day. We caught a taxi to our spot to view the fireworks for the day - observatory Hill lookout - one of the best spots to view the harbour and the bridge. We arrived about half 12 and set up camp right at the front. We...