I'm at the Glacier!!! Iain thank you for your advice but your too late, we've just paid for everything and got signal and now found t'internet! so ths evening i'm going Kayaking to see sunset...although its low mist and wet just now, but not expensive and they take lots of photo's all included in price, then tomorrow as the weather wasn't as good we were going to reduce our 6hr hike to 4hr hike, but only on ice for 1.5hrs....and have to do the hardest part of cl...

3 December 2007 i'm in a wee town south of Westport where we've been dropped off for a couple of hours to prepare for this evening - got a fancy dress night, outfits must be under $10 and ideally not clothing, so i've bought a big bad of bean bag balls, and food bags, and going to make an outfit! good prizes at steak! then tomorrow we head to frans joseph for 2 nights which is when we do glacier stuff. trying to keep activity costs to a minimum, so after FJ w...

Well firstly guys.....I JUMPED OUT OF AN AEROPLANE AT 15,000 FEET AND FREE FELL FOR 1.05 MINUTES!!!Bet you never thought you'd hear that!!Can't believe it myself! was DEAD against the idea of sky diviing, or even being more than 3 foot off the ground, then everyone else was talking about it and i thought.... i'm going to regret not doing this, so i did!!So scary, so surreal, i was so nervous as we had to wait from 3pm till about 6pm before we jumped, there were 5...

Day one of the trip over....nearly!Up at teh very north and spent some pennies but well worth it! went out to swim with dolphins today, sadly couldn't swimwith them as the only pod we got were with babies, but we saw loads right beside us, and we got to lie on the front of the bus with our heads hanging over with them below us. got loads of photos but mostly of fins! so that's my main activity for NZ done! and it only cost about 30 pounds for 4 hour boat trip,...

so i went in to Auckland today to meet Bridget for a sandwich, then i went for a walk along the water front, the sea is such a nice green colour here! then i went up the sky tower! taller than the eiffle tower - and i wet myself (not literaly, althoug i was close). the tower itself was managable, had lots of glass bits on teh floor i just avoided, gorgeous views, but the lift itself has a glass panel int eh floor you can stand on, and glass windows in the door...