Right, as you may have guessed this blog is not/has never been up-to-date, but I am steadily catching up. Enjoy this next installment. We left the Fox Glacier and made our way to a beautiful town just north of Queenstown called Lake Wanaka. We parked up and hired kayaks for round 2. This time they were decent!! The lady told us a good trip was to head out to an island in the middle of the lake, explore that and then head back. We liked this idea, so off we all ...

Unfortunately the weather turned on us over night, and the rain came down heavier than anything I have ever experienced in England, and it lasted for 12 hours. However, when we awoke, all the water had some how gone, I have no idea where but we should have been floating away. We had wanted to do an all day hike but due to the weather we decided to wait until lunch, as it was very misty and still raining softly. Luckily, by lunch it had cleared and the sun was thr...

After Marlborough Sounds we headed south along the West Coast, from Havelock to a place called Westport. The landscape was quite stunning. We pulled up at the only pub in Westport, which is next to a prison and had a pint while watching a rugby game. We also made friends with a Jack Sparrow look-a-like who told us how amazing it was to always beat the world cup holders at rugby, far better than actually winning it. It was a very chilled out day. The following da...

We left the ferry and decided to drive along the coastal road to Nelson. Sleep was not an option, as we would pass out and not wake up again until late, which would really mess us up, so we fought the tiredness. Our first taste of the South Island did not disappoint. The scenery was quite amazing. Marlborough Sounds is made up of vast inlets with high mountains all around covered in tropical vegetation. At 8am there was mist everywhere and it really was quite ...

Hello guys and welcome to the last entry from the North Island. Its been a pretty crazy week. We have wanted to see and do as much as possible so we have been doing a lot of driving, but it has been totally worth it. There was one last stint to do, and thats from Lake Taupo to Wellington. We headed south out of Lake Taupo, only getting 5 minutes down the road before we found a car park overlooking the lake where we spent an hour playing cricket. By the time we l...