So we finished New Zealand.. can you believe it.. exactly 6 months gone now.. how quick its gone we can't explain. Following on from our last update, its been a bit more chilled out.. no more jumping off of or out of things, and a good deal more cheap sight seeing.. Elaine climbed the Franz Joesph Glacier and managed to get herself wedged between some ice, and then snowboarding on the Remarkables.. aching and bruised for about a week but never the less a proud ...

O.K. So here we are in Queenstown - adrenaline capital of the country -down on the South Island. We ended up getting stuck in Rotorua for a whole week as the bus we intended to catch was full and we had to wait for the next one. Very tempted, obviously, to spend a shed load of cash on adrenaline activities - but we managed to resist most of them after the beginning of the week doing the white water sledging and Zorbing etc. However, did end up spending the wh...

Sooo.. we are now in Rotorua, which is one of the main adventure areas on the North Island and you can do pretty much anything... In the end we did white water SLEDGING rather that rafting and it was amazing!! The most ultimate scariest thing we've ever done in our lifes.. You are kitted up and have to hold on to the sledge about 1 meter long like plastic contraption with handle bars, and throw yourself down 4 kilometers of grade 3 and 4 white water rapids,...

G'Day from Noo Zullund aye-bro! So we left South America on the 13th and arrived in Auckland, New Zealand on 15th (going over the time line, hence losing a day!!) still we were awake for over 36 hours so took a few days to sort ourselves out!! First impressions of Auckland was a really nice clean city with normality!!! All Kiwi 's seem to be sooo proud of there country... aye... no wonder... its looks amazing and think its gonna be great!!! Not actually ...