friday the 23rd may - got up at stupid o'clock to get a bus to able tasman national park. we got a free breakfast before we left the hostle which was yummy and then we headed down on the bus. we got dropped off after an hour and a half and then headed to our transportation - a water taxi! they must have been having a laugh when they booked it as it was sitting out halfway into the tasman sea and they said we had to climb aboard! ha! anywya we managed to get on b...

I know thats a photo from wellington but never mind -I'll start where i left off... sat the 17th we got on a bus at rotorua and after being gassed out by the smell of rotten eggs (its a very smelly place - sulphur smell....) we went to the Government Gardens for all of 5 minutes to see a big hole in the ground that had lots of smelly steam coming out of it (really not all that special) before jumping on the bus again and heading out to see some boiling pools of...