Hello peeps, I have literally just finished white water rafting! I'm still shaking, it was awesome! Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself so I'll go back to Te Anau. On our first proper day we went out to Milford Sound. It was beautiful, the drive there was a bit of a struggle though, and when it snowed I did panick slightly! Had to drive nearly a km in the dark through a mountain (literally) which was also slightly unnerving! Saw loads of waterfalls, a...

Well well well....I can't remember where I last wrote from, but I think I was about to go and visit some pingus in Oamaru. Anyway we did that, and they were gorgeous, apparently the smallest penguins in the world. We saw in a big auditorium thing and watched them swim in from the sea, waddle up the beack, climb rocks and head for bed. We even saw a pair of them, ahem, getting it on...delightful! Next day we headed for Dunedin, the South Islands second large...

For some reason we are actually 13 hrs different to you guys now, we can't really understand how...anyway it's a long way! Flew into Christchurch in the South Island of NZ on Fri...slightly traumatic as despite being super organised we nearly missed our flight. Thank god we were 3 hrs early coz they changed our time from 11.15 to 9.15...we literally raced through the airport and got straight on the plane. Anyway apart from that NZ has been gorgeous, but ...