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Hi everyone!
Next on route after Queenstown was the West Coast. After heading through to a cute town called Wananka we decided to try and head on to the Fox glacier the same night. Unfortunately we stupidly mistook a stoney off-beat road with only sheep, cow and dear as company, for the main road. After only passing 2 cars in 3 hours we decided to stop and ask some farmer who laughed and told us that we were actually on 'the road to nowhere!'. Whoops! i loved it though cause we got to see some sheep hearding! they're such dumb animals. They kept running out infront of our van and running round in circles with panick! (hee hee). After that error came an even bigger one, we ran out of petrol with no gas station for miles and miles (whoops!). When we finally reached the fox glacier it was sooo pretty! we climbed through a tropical forest over little stone bridges and rivers (very hard work!) and walked over the glacier!. Got lots of good pictures!. I was in so much pain with blisters but i trooped on!. Gill stuck her head in a glacier pool! (silly girl!).
The next day we headed over to West Port to do some horse riding through rivers and woodland. We cantered and galloped. Sounds all good but i BLOODY HATED IT!! they said that beginers were welcome but there must be a difference between the English term 'beginner' and the New Z!. I hated it so much i cried. I nearly fell of soo many times. They gave me their horse which was renowned for being a moody so and so!. Ive got blisters on my hands from pulling the reins so much. Everytime i said go- she'd stop and eat!. if i tried to pat her she huffed at me! It was so scary. Never again! dumb animals! (raaa)
We went on a walk on the coast to see the 'pancake rocks' which are pretty cool! (photo gallery)
Today was my best day so far. We went whale watching in Kaikoura and saw 5 sperm whales! they are amazing. Bigger than i'd imagined! Watching them dive and flick their tails in the air was completely breath taking!. The only error was how rough the sea was. Poor gill was sick 7 times! i've never seem anyone so green!
Anyways best go but quickly..........
mehreen- dont worry i havent done anything as extreme as a sky dive (yet!)
Cat- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!xxx
Aunt(ies) and Uncle Bobby- thanks for your emails, il continue having fun!
Michele- Fred ;0)
Joe-Love you loads and missing you skabillions !xxxx
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