Another long day in Peggy, we stopped on the way to visit the Magellan penguin colony at Otway. There wasn't too many penguins as it was about to close for the season, it was also freezing. Punta Arenas we stopped here overnight. We had a really good hot chocolate in Lomits, fondly called Vomits by Judes Brother in law John - he worked in Punta Arenas sometime ago. We left Punta Arenas early we had a long trip on Peggy and wanted to ...

We had a long day traveling from New Zealand to Buenos Aires via Santiago and then another long day the following day flying from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia as our flight was delayed by about 5 hours. The views coming in to land at Ushuaia were spectacular. The whole area is called Tierra del Fuego - 'Land of Fire', this was due to the first Europeans seeing the fires of the locals when they were navigating the area. We had a couple of days before our tour ...

Dear All Well we had a fun packed last week in New Zealand. Which we spent in the North Island. We flew into Wellington, were we stayed for two nights so that we could visit the dentist. (My front cap fell out you can imagine how much fun I was -Fee) Just before we go on and tell you all about the North Island - we just missed an earthquake in the South Island!! While in Wellington we did the Museum of New Zealand history which was fantastic. We...

Hi Everyone Well we are here in the North Island now, but we wanted to finish off telling you about our last week in the South Island. Once we left Wanaka we drove North to the mountain ranges that includes Mount Cook. We had booked to stay in the 5* Youth Hostel, in a place called Franz Joseph. Which is famous for having one of the few Glaciers that is still advancing. That afternoon we walked to the face of the glacier. The following morning we were up...

Hi Guys, Far too busy enjoying ourselves to email..... Queenstown seems the centre of the universe for most backpackers travelling around the South Island. It was a bit too busy for us!! However the lakes and mountains there were beautiful. We went up on the gondola (walking up the mountain was just not going to happen) and Fiona went 'lunging' at the top. No this is not a form of fighting but a down hill track on a cross between a go-kart and and s...