continuing from the 1st of june - in the afternmoon (after lunch etc, we got picked up by a bus tour company and headed out on a tour to see a bunch of native wildlife. well at first we thought it would be a seriously geeky bird watching tour as all we kept seeing were loads of birds and other nature things but we were quite excited by the kingfishers as we were able to get up really close to 2 kingfishers (ive never seen one before so was very exciting for me)...

continuing on from the friday 30th may so after we left the internet cafe we headed to fergburger for lunch! MMMMMMM i had one called sweet bambi which was a deer burger (sorry vegies) with plum sauce. thought i should try it as not had deer before - was really nice but very very messy. we then left feeling seriously full and went for a walk around the gardens before waddling back up the hill to our hostle and chilling out with patrick swayze in DIRTY DANCING! c...

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...

SO im in Wellington - better explain how i got here! Tuesday 13th - we had a plan - the plan didnt work so instead we decided to make our way to the sky tower and see what there is to see! we could see quite a bit actually and saw the sky tower jump which was a bit on the pathetic side really - it was juts cables that u would fall down fairly slowly - bit naff to be honest. anyway we then decided it would be a good idea to climb a volcanoe! so we headed to the f...