Hey again everyone, Been busy busy busy as per usual, here's what I've been up to: Spent a night in Waitomo which is a small town which is home to NZ's best cave system. Went quad biking with Rich and Nick. This was great fun as it involved some pretty tricky terrain rather than just racing around a flat course, basically 16kms of really hilly land this farmer has converted for quad biking and some hills you just wouldn't think you could get up if you hadn't ju...

Hi All, After dragging myself away from the lovely bay of islands I've spent a couple of days in mercury bay another small costal location and the last 3 days in rotorua a town based on a geothermal site which smells somewhat of boiled eggs but has some cool hot pools, spas and geysers and a good amount of activities on offer. In mercury bay we really had only the 1 full day to play with so our little group of 3 currently (Me, Rich and Ben) headed off on a bike...

Hey everyone, Just a quick update, finished my diving course yesterday so I'm now a certified PADI diver (wahey) and can now say that i dont intend to do any more exams for the next few years (which I said in May but well that didn't last long). I really enjoyed the course, there was a reasonable amount to learn but it comes really easily after a while and you feel very calm and confident quite quickly even tho you may be up to 18m down. Saw a lot of fish as wel...

Hey guys, Been in New Zealand coming up a week now, flew into Auckland and only spent a day there (its just a fairly std city) before moving onto the bay of islands which I've now been staying in for 5 days and will be until sunday.Its nice to stay somewhere for enough time to really settle in there and I couldn't have asked for a much nicer or chilled out place to do so. Been busy as ever tho:I've Made a close group of 7 cool friends (Rich,Leanne,Kelly,Alex,El a...