So after 20 flights, numerious train and bus journey and a fair bit of hiking we've made it to Sydney! To say it has been fantastic doessn't really do the trip or the company justice but it's the best word i can think of. We've had a few tense moments, a few tears but most of all a lot of laughs and really couldn't of wished it to be any better than it was - nor our travel comanions. Now it's on to the next stage in our plans a year in Sydney........... lets hope...

After the cold and snow of the south island we left NZ for the final stop on our trip, Vanuatu. The first few days we had in Pot Villa, Vanuatu were spent in bed with flu, but i guess we'd had a pretty good run of it health wise so couldn't complain too much. Our only worry was if we woudl be able to dive, but luckily all was well in the end and we not only manged to dive but did our advanced PADI and dive a WWII wreck to 62m!! We also did a fantastic night di...

From Malborough Sounds we travelled inland a bit to Arrowtown, it was originally a gold digers town and was like something out of the wild west. Leaving our hopes of finding gold behind we drove to nearby Wanaka and had three days snowboarding. On the whole we had good weather, great snow and unfortunatly a few injuries along the way. But all in all it was fab! After three days, realising we are not getting any younger we dragged our sore, aching bodies to Qu...

After picking up our car for the next month we drove south from Christchurch on the start of our road trip round the southern coast. We followed the coastal road to our first port of call Omaru in the hope of seeing some rare penguins. That afternoon we went up to the Blue Penguin Colony visitors center and through an organised viewing we saw blue penguins coming in from a day feeding at sea. They are tiny about 30cm tall and surf up the beach on waves at dusk th...

So after our four flights we made it back to the Western world in the form of Auckland in the north island. Walking out of the airport into a cold rainy day and fresh air was the best. Don't get me wrong Asia had been amazing but some cold fresh air was like a piece of heaven and a lot like home!. Auckland is a nice enough city although we didn't get much chance to see it all. We did wander around the harbour salivating at all the lovely restaurants and just...