Hello everyone!!! Sorry I have been so neglectful! As most of would know we arrived back in aus on the afternoon of Feb 8th. So have a bit of caching up to do. Last blog entry ended in Te anau and we were going to Milford sound the following day. It was absolutely beautiful. We went on a nature cruise that went for around 3hrs with redboat cruises. The scenery was absolutely spectacular and words just cannot describe its beauty, and my pictures just don’t do i...

hi everyone! ok so last time i talked to you we were hoping on still be able to go up on the glacier. good news is the next day dawned beautiful and we woke to the sound of helicopters flying all over the place so we were able to do our heli hike which was absolutely brilliant. a scenic helicopter flight to about a 1/3 the way up the glacier then we hiked around for about 2.5 hrs and we crawled thru and ice cave and everything it was great. got sunburnt tho :( (b...

hey everyone! sorry its been so long! been busy and had an argument with the computer one night so never finished the blog entry and then lost it but anywho! now in fox glacier. last i talked to you we were in hanmer springs and since then we drove to westport, on the way stopping at a little rest area near a river where we discovered the west coast mozzies! so i decided to watch from the car. we stopped again at reefton a little coal mining village in the top of...

hello all! so two days hav passed since my last entry. one of them was spent in christchurch. we went to the antartic centre which was great! we saw penguins and learnt about scott base the nz research base in antartica. was very interesting. there was also a room that recreated the conditions in antaertica. it was -8 degress and there was snow and wind and every 30 minutes a snow storm comes and it gets really dark and the wind blows a gale bringing it down to ...

well were back in christchurch, this time to stay for 2 nights. were at the hotel ibis, fairly basic and dad keeps whinging about things it doesnt hav and how crappy it is. but it is only a 3 star hotel. what do u expect? but today we drove back from kaikoura and got to christ church round 1-130. we went to the gondola which wasnt operating at the time because of high winds. it was very blowy and the good weather has disappear. today it was blowing a gale, rain a...