Just outside Queens town we stopped for some people to do a bungy jump on the worlds first ever bungy jump. At 47m it is quite small these days but it can be a water touch bungy. Tom, Ray, Ian and Kat did it. We all stood at the side and watched and cheered them on. Afterwards we stopped at a fruit stall for a picnic lunch. I bought some oranges, it was nice to have some fruit for a cange. When we got to Queenstown we had a group photo infront of the lake. We ma...

We had another scenic drive and stopped at lake Matheson to do a walk and check out the lake. Whats special about the lake is it is a mirror lake. It perfectly reflects the forests, hills and mountains in its water. One of the mountains is Mount Cook, the tallest Mountain in New Zealand named after Captain Cook. We walked to a lookout point where we took photos and admired the view. It was then back on the bus to drive through the mountains. We stopped in a Nati...

On the way to Franz Josef we stopped off at the Bushman Centre to learn about deer farming. The deers that were introduced to New Zealand had become a problem in the 70's as there were too many of them so people were employed as hunters to get rid of them. We watched a video of how they did this. There were many hunters on foot but this took time so some people people came up with the idea of shooting them from helicopters. People came to like the taste of deer m...

We headed to the the Mahinapau hotel near Lake Mahinapua. It is known as the Poo Pub to the Kiwi bus which exclusively stay there. The whole point of going there was to have a party and not just any party ... a fancy dress party. We were given the theme of Rugby World Cup - Support your team! It was quite a long drive so on the way Josh made us play speed dating to get to know more of the new people. The people near the windows stayed still and the people in the ...

We arrived in Westport and it was a Sunday which meant everything was closed apart from the bars and supermarket. The two activites on offer were horse riding and and jet boating. I have done lots of horseriding and although jet boating looked fun I decided not to do it as I had already done a lot of activities in New Zealand and I cant do everything. This just left the pub and rugby. Luckily there were two good matches on. First Wales and then England. They both...