Woke up early ... Again! We are on holiday and yet waking up earlier than at home! After the canyoning, the nails were in tact but wrecked so I hastily booked in for a manicure to cut them all off before we left Wanaka leaving bob to empty the grey water from the van and have some brekkie on the lake front. By midday we were all sorted and on the road to queenstown. The skydive was booked in for the afternoon and so far weather looked good so plan was to dump t...

Today Anne completed one of her life's dreams - being photographed for Australia's number 1 adventure magazine in a feature on extreme sports... The day begun with an early start in Wanaka where we met our guide for our trip canyoning for the day. As complete novices to canyoning with zero abseiling experience we thought it best to opt for their hardcore experience - 'BIG NIGE' which included a 20m descent down a waterfall. You could see our guide Annette (a to...

We drove (well when I say we, I mean Anne did the majority today). Highlights of the day include emptying the s*** from our mega bus and the constant unwavering rain. Leaving the rain forest landscape of Franz we headed into terrain much like the Lakes, but on a monster scale. I'm out a day, but some of the rivers on the way to Franz are worth mentioning as they looked like they were made of raspberry slush puppy without the ice (that's a convaluted way of sayin...