Welcome to Welly! We decided last minute to change our ferry crossing from late Friday night to first thing Friday morning so we could have an extra day on the North Island. This turned out to be one of our better decisions, as the weather in Picton when we left at 7am was British style miserable! However, we arrived in Welly and the sun was shining! What a lovely day in Wellington, it's hard to believe that it's NZ's capital city as there is very small busines...

Hi everyone! I am happy to report that it has stopped raining yey! We left the soggy West Coast behind and drove the East Coast to find some extremely welcomed sunshine :) Nelson was a nice little place where we managed to catch up on some very overdue blogging and have a look around the shops before heading out on the road again. We have done quite a bit of driving over the last few days to make sure we could fit in all our East Coast itinerary, although it d...

Hi folks! After an interesting night fighting sand flies we arrived ready to hike Fox Glacier! Our poor campervan Bob has been doing a great job making it up and down all these mountains so we were glad to finally be giving it a day's rest! Today was all about walking! After getting kitted out with our boots, waterproofs, hat, mittens, over trousers and crampons…(Spikes for your boots to grip the ice) we climbed onboard the retro Fox Glacier bus, which was co...

Hi Everyone! After a fantastic fun day in Queenstown we went back into the Fiordlands to Manapouri where we left for our trip on Doubtful Sound! The tour company ensured us it would be quite a journey to get to the sound and they weren't joking! First of all we got on a coach, then onto a boat, followed by another coach and then onto another boat then finally into our kayaks! As we were travelling the tour guide/bus driver/skipper gave us the history of an...

Hi everyone! It has been non-stop for the last two days and we have managed to clock over 1200km already! After enjoying an amazing night's star gazing at Omarama campsite we decided to head on to Dunedin (East Coast). We stopped off at a couple of touristy sites in the morning, including some Maori rock art (not very impressive) and then the Elephant Rocks (very impressive). These were really cool as they are giant limestone rocks that are just dotted across a ...