We left Motueka and made our way to Nelson, we were quite sad to leave Motueka as we had such a good time there. We did plan to have a few days in Nelson but after arrriving there we thought one afternoon would be enough, it was a pleasant place but it was a bit too busy for our liking! So we made our way towards Picton, we had a wonderful drive there along Queen Charlotte Drive. Again the scenery was just lovely and the road was so windy, every corner we went ro...

We arrived in Motueka after taking the most direct route from the national park and still getting a wee bit lost, not that bad in comparision. Anyway we checked into the Top 10 park and immediatly a leaflet caught my eye 'SKYDIVE ABEL TASMAN' and yes before you could Adam and Eve it we were onto the jump for the following day at 9.15am, arghhhh!!!! We then spent the day relaxing and reading some brochures on Kayaking the Tasman. Well I think Ellie was kinda worri...

Well here goes with a long old blog entry........... After departing Franz Josef we made our way up the rugged west coast towards Hokitika. We did notice on the map and in Lonely Planet that most of the little towns along the way were former Gold Mining communities. So at that we decided to go to Ross to try and earn our millions. Ross was a quaint little place and had a wild west town feel to it. I rushed into the Info centre and rented a panner and spade. We d...

After being savagely attacked by swarms of sandflies at our free camp we headed towards the Fox Glacier, Kam was really looking forward to do a skydive here as its suppose to be one of the best places you can do it in NZ (I wasn't to keen!). Our first stop at Fox was the airstrip was to find the crazy skydivers....there was no one there at all!! We asked some people in the shops where they were and they said the weather was going to get really bad over the next f...

Well we left Milford Sound and made our way towards Queenstown. We went through some really stunning scenery and decided to stop in a small town called Kingston which was at the base of a massive lake. The other end of this lake was Queenstown and we had a really relaxing lunch and skimmed some stones aswell, the water was so clear. There was also a Choo Choo train puffing smoke and it was very surreal, could hear the echos coming off the mountains. We set off to...