Franz Josef to Queenstown and Milford Sound 4th - 8th February Making our way to Queenstown we were meals for yet more sandfly. But we did manage to stop and clamber over the rope bridge to see the stunning blue pools right in the middle of western NZ's temperate rainforest.Queenstown was the first substantial civilisation we had seen for a few days and we were thankful for it, we topped up on supplies and planned the next day's activities: River surfing on the ...

Milford Sound

Queenstown

Christchurch to Franz Josef 1st - 3rd February So we had a car at this point, and thank god we did because we stopped almost every 30 minutes on our journey from east to west NZ, the scenery was overwhelming. We travelled from Christchurch through Arthur's pass in the Southern Alps to a small town called Hokitika. Other than eating some blue cod and trying but failing to spot the local penguins we didn't do much here except sleep and recharge for the next day, d...

Hi Again!Sorry it has been a while since we put a post up again, it is harder to find a decent internet café in NZ than we thought it would be. We've been in NZ 12 days now and in that time we have travelled over 1500 km so there's quite a lot to update, we have split it into smaller blog entries to make things easier. Christchurch and Akaroa, 28th Jan - 1st February When we sent the previous blog we had just landed in Christchurch and hadn't really seen much ...