NEW ZEALAND-AUCKLAND TO MERCURY BAY TO ROTORUA! On sat March 15th we began our Kiwi tour...our driver was "Cheese" we headed to a towen in Mercury Bay called Whitianga. All "WH" are pronounced 'F'. Try pronouncing a place in the east of the North island called WHAGATANE! On our way there we stopped at Cathedral Cove named due to the shape of the rocks there, check out the photos and you'll see. It was a 45 min walk from where we got off the...

NEW ZEALAND-AUCKLAND UPDATE! We arrived in Auckland from Fiji on Tues March 11th. We spent 4 days here. On Tuesday we found Emma (our travel agent from UK) working at STA and arranged to meet the following evening. We didn't get up to much tues or wed daytime. On wed eve we met Emma for an indian meal, was lush. THURS we bumped into Jo Thompson (Carl's friend from school) who lives in Austrailia but happened to be in Auckland for a few days....small world as th...

Fiji updateArrived 6th March at 5.15AM! From fri 7th March we did a 4 day 3 night tour of 2 of the Fiji Islands. We stayed on the Main Fiji island in Nadi at Nomads skylodge for 1 night before beginning our tour. We went on a big yellow boat that took about 2 hrs to our first island Kuata. The boat is like a taxi which stops off at several islands on the way up to north Yasawa islands. We saw Bounty island on the way the one from celebrity love island….its ...