We spent two days driving along the Southern Scenic Route, which goes along the bottom of the South Island. We drove to a place called Nugget Point where we saw penguins and seals on the rocks. We visited cathedral Cave the next day where we had to paddle throught the freezing cold sea to get to the entrance. That was fun!! We stopped at some small bays along the road and saw some lovely views and scenery. At Curio Bay is a petrified forest, where the trees ...

We left Christchurch and spent the day driving through the Banks Peninsula, which was beautiful. We arrived in a small town called Akaroa, which was a french settlement so everything was in french. We watched the sunset on the end of the pier. We stayed in the van for the first night and it was fery comfortable. The next day we drove to Lake Tekapo this took a few hours and the mountains got higher the further we went. The lake was very blue, caused by t...

We left Melbourne very early on Wednesday having to get up at 430 and our flight left at 715. We had a good flight with good movies, games and music. We landed in Christchurch about midday here, the weather was better than we thought nice and sunny and quite warm. We found a hostel to stay in and spent the afternoon walking round. On Thursday we moved hostels and went to the Car market, here we bought a Campervan, its very clean and tidy. We thought it would...