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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

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 ...