After a wobbly 3 hour ferry ride to the North island we were both very relieved to see Wellington lit up in the night sky, (the night ferrys were cheaper!!) We managed to find a fantastic spot looking right over Wellington harbour on the water front to sleep. The next day we headed in to explore what NZ's capital had to offer. We headed to the Te Papa museum, now this was initially because it was free to get into but it turned out to be really cool. We got to see...

Next stop on our adventure north was Nelson, This was apparently a city but was more like a town in 'back home' terms. After a coffee to sit and watch the world go by we had wander round the 'city'. We then decided that a walk to the 'centre of NZ' was too good to miss so we set off, unfortunately we got our directions abit off so it turned into a climb to the centre of NZ rather than a stroll! So we arrived nice and sweaty to the centre of NZ and then headed to...

We drove up the west coast and stopped at Hokitika for coffee and cakes before We began our trip across Aurthurs pass. We were taking the pass for a quick stop over at Christchurch, (bloody broken fridge!) luckily the pass was as beautiful as we had heard and we managed to camp in a fantastic spot along the pass. After our stop off at chirstchurch the fridge was back on form and we headed up to Hanmer Springs to try out the natural hot springs. We soaked for a fe...

Our drive up to Wanaka was put at a brief halt as we had to dodge a few herds of cows that were in the middle of road! once we finally made it we headed for puzzling world, this place sounded a bit bizarre but turned out to be really cool. we first went into the illusion room which was a combination of weird puzzles, holograms and of course, illusions. Shelly walked into a room where she got the feeling someone was watching her, as it turned out everyone was........

We arrived in Te Anau on our way to Milford sounds, it was a small town which consisted of one main road where everything shut at 5...so after discovering the crazy golf was shut but left open we had a quick round before dinner! The next morning Rich headed on 4 wheels and went quad biking,through a farm, many a puddle and eventually to the top of a mountain with spectatular views of the fiordlands.As Shelly was very jealous of Rich's 4 wheel adventure we deciede...