Marahau (Abel Tasman) to West Coast (Greymouth) - Tuesday 6th December 2011 On our way to Greymouth - we stopped at a number of national park stops which included the Paparoa National Park and the Chimney Pot and flapjack like rock formations. I really don't have much to say about Greymouth - it's a small town consisting of two main high streets, which I covered in under 10 minutes, and that was about all it had to offer. This was a night stopover before headi...

Marahau (Abel Tasman) - Monday 5th December 2011 Okay, so things got a whole lot better this morning with a spot of Kayaking in the Abel Tasman national park. Georgie, Marleen and I hired out a couple of kayaks and we headed out to sea around Adele and Fisherman's Island. Thankfully I managed to get a Kayak to myself (supposed to be two to a boat) but being that I have my one star award (Awarded at the South Water country park - BBH 1st Scouts 1989) ;-) I assume...

Wellington to Marahau (Abel Tasman) - Sunday 4h December 2011 So I waved good bye to the North Island and caught a Blue Bridge ferry to the wet and windy South Island to meet the next Stray bus. Thankfully a lot of the Northern Stray bus were also still together and following the same route, so this made the start of the South Island a lot easier being that we all had gotten to know one another. We headed through the famous Marlborough vineyard area and stop...

National Park to Wellington - Friday 2ndto Saturday 3rdDecember 2011 This is really where the fun really began! With Wellington being the capital of New Zealand we were really in for and guaranteed evening of drinking and making some shapes (and Georgie had plenty of them) on the dance floor. Until now it has been full on early mornings and long days, but Wellington offered us the break we'd been waiting for. In the afternoon we chilled out in the city and...

Whakahoro to Tongariro National Park, New Zealand - Thursday 1st December 2011 Today we headed to the active volcanoes and World Heritage of 'Tongariro National Park' to complete the Tongariro crossing. This was like no other walk Id ever experienced and it took a total of around 6 hours to complete. At times the terrain was tough, but the views were out of this world and made up for the sore feet. So on the walk we were also joined by a photographer who was ...