I left syndey just after 7am on the OZ experience, i am doing the three night trip to Melbourne. I was expecting smaller buses than kiwi experience after talking to othes that have done it bit there were only 6 people on the bus. (2 people missed it) It was a misture of nationalities for a change with 1 dutch, 1 german, 1 swiss 1 polish, 1 other english and 1 irish guy that joined us the next day after missing the bus earlier. We left Syndey and drove to Canberra...

On Sunday i walked down to Circular quay with the girl in my room called Tami. THis is the quay where you can see the opera house and the harbour bridge so took all the neccesary photos!! We went inside the opera house and a did the hour tour. It is much bigger than i thought with 5 or 6 seperate theatres. We were able to go into 3 of the theatres. It was good to see the structure and the roof close up!!!!! After finishing the tour we walked around to the other ...

Have arrived in Sydney. its sunny and warm about 18deg today. had no problems at customs getting my visa wwent straight through and got there early, so i had to wait for the guy to come pick me up. arranged a sydney arrival package so after he collected me he showed me around syndey and down to the waterfront to see the opera house and bridge. tomorrow ill be off exploring.

spent the last 10 days in Auckland with my friend. had a nice lazy time saving me money for OZ. did go to the zoo which had or the usual animals in. On 17th went to Eden Park to watch the All Blacks Vs Ireland. it was a wet windy evening but luckily my seat was undercover. the weather made the game quite poor but was still awesome to be at an all blakcs game. the haka was impressive too. 1000s of people there but there is a train station right next door with extr...

On saturday we arrived in Kaikoura at lunch time in order for us to do some activities. It was a really nice day with clear blue sky, fairly warm, and calm seas. this was good as it meant i was able to do a whale watching trip. we were on the sea for about 2 hours and we were really lucky to see 4 sperm whales fairly easily. we watched the whales until they dived back under the water. was awesome to see so many close up and they were huge. after watching these we...