Nelson-Abel Tasman (and back down again to catch the ferry) 16th-18th February Carrying on from Nelson up to Abel Tasman we continued to be followed by cloud, it's getting beyond funny now! However we booked a kayaking trip and stayed a night just outside the park hoping the next day's weather would be more fruitful. Luckily for us it was, we had a really nice sunny day for our sea kayaking. The kayaking was a really cool experience, until now we have ...

Picton

Hi Guys, Greetings from 'Windy Welly' (Wellington), NZ's capital. The Kairkora and Abel Tasman blogs will have to be quick unfortunately because parking in town is really expensive and we only have 30 mins left on our ticket! Dunedin-Kaikora 12th-16th February The drive up from Dunedin to wildlife rich Kaikora was fairly uneventful, we stopped off for a night at Oamaru and managed to see some blue penguins despite the wind and horizontal rain (It ...

Invercargill to Dunedin 8th - 11th February Hey! After a colder few days in New Zealands Fjordland and Southland we went to the Catlins in the southeast in search of some sun and dry weather....we went to the wrong place! The Catlins is like a chunk of the UK shipped across and dumped in the southern hemisphere, it looks and feels the same, only there are far less humans and far more seals/sea lions/ penguins (pretty cute). Ignoring the weather and determined...

The Catlins