Hello. Our first stop heading South was at Waitomo. We got there and booked sraight on a trip to see the glow worms in the caves. We had a guided tour by a really crazy lady- she was fun. She took us into 2 sets of caves and we did a little boat ride to see all the glow worms. They were very pretty. Went back to hostel and loads of us watched some Lord of the Rings- has to be done in NZ!!! Didn't recognise anywhere though. George and i then got the cards out and...

Hello, Back in Aucklanland for the night and then getting a bus early to Waitomo.We dropped Gizzy off today which was very sad so now we are travelling bu bus- great fun!!!! Bit of expamsion on the quad biking as i don't hink George did it justice- AMAZING FUN. It was 2 1/2 hrs. Graet way to see the 90 mile beach. We went on hard sand where we could go at top speed- really soft sand, over rocks and best of all arounfd the dunes. We went down this reeally lo...

Dolphin Tour We went on a sailing boat round the bay of Islands for the day with possibility of seeing some dolphins! As you can see from our photos we were very lucky and got some great snaps. Unfortunatly we were unable to swim with them as they were moving to fast but we will get the chance soon! Next day headed to top of North Island and did some sandboarding. Hard work but good fun. Then today before heading down the west coast we went quad biking in the d...

Hello Wednesday we walked up mount Eden which is a volcano (not active) in Auckland. Was pretty cool you could see the crater. We picked up our car and have been heading north.Gizzy (our car) is very very slow. She doesn't like hill's or straight- ok on downhill!!!!! The last 2 night we spent a Pahiri Beach Holiday park in a cabin. It was a campsite with caravans (mum you would have loved it) and tents and cabins. Our cabin was a basic one so just a hut wit...

Hello everyone, George just did an email to some of you but for the others: Had a nice day- didn't leave hostel until about 12- putting photo's on took ages!!!! We got bus into town and went up the sky tower. It was good but thought we should have eaten in the restaurant and then could have got up there for free!!! We didn't think it was as good as the peak in Hong Kong though!!!! The picture above is of the Harbour which we could see from the Sky Tower. Af...