Well, we're now back in Christchurch, our final destination in New Zealand before we fly out to Sydney. The last couple of weeks have been great, we've done a lot of K's and seen some amazing places. After we left the glaciers we headed on down the West coast untill we eventually got to 'Slope Point' the most Southerly point in New Zeland. It is situated in an area called the Catlins. Most of the roads aren't sealed and therefore you don't see many other p...

After we left Mum & Dad we made our way back to Christchuch. It seem's a really nice city, with a very european feel to it. It even has a River Avon running through it which you can take a punt down ! We decided to cross over the Island to the West coast, along Arthurs pass. It's a very scenic drive, across the Southern Alpes apparantley. Apparantley because as we left sunny Christchuch on about 29 'C the wind started to really blow, so much so that I was scare...

Happy New Year !! We hope you all had a great Christmas period & New Year's Eve. Our thoughts were with you all. Well, at last Wilson seniors arrived !!. We decided to meet them off the ferry at Picton. We were both really excited about seeing them, but also felt a little nervous. They arrived on the 22nd of December and had kindly booked us all into a hotel from the 23rd to the 27th in the lovely town of Akaroa on the banks peninsular. We made our way do...

Well we hit Terra ferma in the South Island and decided to drive down the scenic road towards Nelson. We couldn't see much as it was dark an we were both really tired, so we decided to pull over in a layby to ge a couple of hours sleep. When we woke it was the most beautiful scenery, huge forested hills with gorgeous blue water running at the bottom, tiny inlets with big sailing boats mored up and beautiful houses dotted about. We made our way to Mapua where w...

In Porangahau whilst I did the first stint of docking, we met an old guy named Ray who was Paul, the farmers step dad. He is a really nice chap who lived in Wellington. He kindly offered that when we got to Wellington to stay with him. As it happened, he was away when we arrived so we rather luckily had the exclusive use of his house !. We only had two days in Wellington before we caught the ferry to the South Island. The first day we went to Te Papa museum...