Kiwi Experience Day 19On our way to Kaikoura we signed up for our next activity - swimming with dolphins. I have always wanted to swim with dolphins so I was really excited! We checked into our hostel and hurried down to the office to get kitted out in our wetsuits. When we paid for our trip we were told that although they had had a few successful trips over the last few days, as dolphins are wild animals and we would be entering their natural habitat, they co...

Kiwi Experience Day 19On our way to Kaikoura we signed up for our next activity - swimming with dolphins. I have always wanted to swim with dolphins so I was really excited! We checked into our hostel and hurried down to the office to get kitted out in our wetsuits. When we paid for our trip we were told that although they had had a few successful trips over the last few days, as dolphins are wild animals and we would be entering their natural habitat, they co...

New Zealand Week 3 Kiwi Experience - day 12 We left Franz Joseph early morning and headed to the town of Fox Glacier where we did an hour or so walk around Lake Matheson. This is the most photographed lake in New Zealand and when the weather is good you can catch a perfect mirror reflection of Mount Cook on the Lake. Luckily we had a clear day and the view was beautiful. Some great photo opportunities to take advantage of. We stopped again about an hour do...

New Zealand - Week 2 Kiwi Experience Day 5 - We left Taupo and headed to a place called River Valley. On the way we had a walk to the Taranaki waterfall which is where a scene from Lord of the Rings was filmed. For those of you who know the film, it was in the 2nd film where Gollem was fishing next to the waterfall. It was beautiful and the water was so clear you could see the stones on the bottom. Not like the rivers in the UK which are usually a mucky brown co...

So here starts the mammoth New Zealand blog! Where do we start.....? How about right at the beginning...First of all we have to say how much we have absolutely loved our time in NZ. It is such a beautiful country, we have made many friends and done a lot of exciting, adrenaline fueled activities including thrown ourselves off a few things in Queenstown! We were very sad to leave the country but here is our story so far......(feel free to shut down half way throug...