Fox and Franz Josef glacier After leaving our freedom camp spot next to lake hawea, we had a long drive through the haast pass. As it had heavily rained most of the day before and all through the night, there were lots of waterfalls coming down from the snowy peaked mountains. We stopped at 2 falls on the way, these being the thunder falls and roaring billy falls. Thunder falls were quite impressive while roaring billy wasn't the most spectacular. Whilst w...

After leaving Queenstown we drove through the Kawarua gorge stopping at a waterfall. Driving a little further past Cromwell we decided to stop for lunch next to a lake. We had soup and played cards for a while before we could be bothered to drive the rest of the way to Wanaka. When driving around in our campervan we listen to Tourism Radio which basically points out good places to stay, go and dine. We heard of a good caravan park with free wifi and spa in Wa...

In the morning when we were ready to leave the cascades creek camp site we realised we had a slight dilema.... no water tank cap was on our vehicle!?!? lost, stolen we don't know. Peter seems to think he locked it the last time he used it... Anyways it wasn't there. So we retraced our footsteps for a little bit, checking around the lane at the camp site and car parks at the divide and marian lake. Unfortunately our luck wasn't in, no sign of our water tank cap. ...

We left Invercargill with a full tank of fuel and headed north towards Fiordland National Park. Our journey was miserable due to the rain that never stopped. We stopped at a look out to try and spot dolphins but we had no luck. We got onto the scenic route, basically on the edge of the National Park which is supposably the wettest part of New Zealand. Even though it wasn't the best day we still had spectacular views. There is only one road to Milford sound,...

From our freedom camp next to the beach we drove south towards the Catlin Coast. Lucy was driving the campervan for the first time and did very well considering its 7.1m in length... just slightly bigger than her old beloved clio. When we arrived on the Catlins coast we drove through the surf town of Kaka Point before going to Nugget Point, 8km on a gravel road. This area had a very rugid coastline with stunning views. Nugget point was high up on the cliffs, fr...