SOUTH ISLAND PART 2!!! After lunch we carried on driving to Greymouth - this is where the fun began for the eagerly awaited POO PARTY!! Basically at Lake Mahinapua you have a party with a theme! the host is an 83 yr old man called uncle Les who has never ever left New Zealand and come to that not even the south island! he has been hosting these parties everynight for the kiwi experience for the past 20-something years and it was quite possible the most surreal ...

Sunday 6th April 2008- Christchurch, New Zealand Following on from a small reunion with some Oz friends in Brisbane and a short flight later we arrive at Christchurch, for Jo to be formally told off in customs for taking pictures of our "plane friends" in their cowboy hats getting frantically searched for an illegal substances!! It being after midnight a well deserved bed and sleep was in need and so to Base Hostel it was. The following day bought us...

Rain in the rainforest during the rainy season?? surely not... After our last greyhound bus (sob sob!) to cairns we made our way to our hostel in cairns - Gilligans! well actually it is more of a resort than a hostel, with a club, swimming pool, beauty salon - jo and i felt very at home! we didn't get to cairns till the evening so we just had some food and got our bag packed for a couple of days in the rainforest. We had booked 2 nights at a random hostel in the...

The following morning bought us yet another Greyhound journey to Townsville; our stepping stone to Magnetic Island and the Full Moon Party!!!!!! A half hour windy trip over on the ferry bought us to another slice of paradise, and we were soon to discover that Magnetic Island had a very little population........try nobody! We jumped on the local bus and drove through the cute small residental streets dropping off all the school kids outside their houses as we went...

Well.......fellow blog readers, having discovered that Greyhound bus journey's over 15 hours are not the best for the back, mind, stomach or anything in fact we arrived at our half way destination point to Airle Beach "Hervey Bay" this is where we spent the next few hours bidding the time in an air conditioned coffee shop brousing at all the books and sipping latte's before we completed the 17 hour trip, now us both having 2 seats we finally arrived at ...