HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGA!!!! Hope your having a good day! today we went from Makarora to Queenstown. We stopped at Wanaka on the way where there is a lovely lake (see the picture!). The others went to a Puzzling place where they walked around a maze and solved puzzles! They all enjoyed this! I went into the town of Wanaka and chilled out in a cafe with a girl on our trip Gina and got a great view of the lake from here! We then headed to Queenstown but on the way we st...

Today we left Franz Josef and headed to Makarora! It was a pretty miserable day and because of that we didn't get to stop at the mirror lakes which was a little dissapointing but we did get to stop at the Haast waterfall which was amazing!!! Very high! We got to our hostel where we were staying in triangle house!!! And there were no bunk beds which was great!!! A few of us went for a short walk up to the Haast River which was very pretty then headed back for a na...

Hello! I thought i'd give you an update on how the birthday celebrations went. It was lovely. Firstly Andrew presented me with a big surprise of cards and presents from my family which i was not expecting at all! Many thanks for those. Early start at about 7am and by 9am, thanks to beautiful clear skies, we were all kitted up to jump onto a helicopter! Sarah, Selina, Andrew and i flew over the gorgeous Franz Josef glacier. The scenery was truly unbelievable....

After a lovely lie in, mud masks from Rotorua, and a 12.30pm start(!!!!) we headed to Franz Josef. Stopped on the way at Lake Mahinapua for a walk by the lake and through the rainforest then landed in Franz Josef!

Headed to Barrytown today! Did an hours coastal walk along Cape Foulwind where we saw quite a few seals though you really had to concentrate hard to see them! Lots of big waves here too! Pancake rockas was the next stop! These are rocks with lots of horizontal lines across them so they look like pancakes stacked up... hence the name! there were also a few blowholes here too! After arriving at Barrytown we had a roast dinner (lots of gravy too!) which was deliciou...