So we woke bright and early to get onto the ferry over to the south island! About 3 1/2 hours altogether but a good view all the way!

Forgot to mention in the last update that whilst in Ohakune we experienced a Volcanic TREMOR! not an earthquake tremor but a volcanic one!amazing eh!:) both in our little cabin, everything started to shake quite "violently" for about 5 seconds!Both looked at each other like 'What the hell....?' then realised what it was!crazy! Also that same night when we legged it to the loo in the night, we looked up and could clearly see the Milky-Way!What a...

On the way out of Queenstown we found the spot where the River Anduin was filmed at a different location and where the Pillars of the Kings were computerised! his spot was where one of the first bungy jumps was started, we watched a few people have a go but definately didn't muster up the courage to do it ourselves!!They are crazy! Anyway, didn't stop at Dunedin even though it has the steepest street in the world!

We are back in Wellington now then, staying in a campsite at Lower Hutt, not far up the road! Today we came straight into the city and went to a huge new museum, Te Papa! Lots of interactive gadgets to play with so matt was in his element!haha! Then we headed to the Embassy theatre, this is where the premier for Lord of the Riongs was so we got tickets to see The Two Towers tomorrow at 12.30 because they play the films every sunday!!:) Across the road from the ...

On the way to Wellington we stopped off at a place called Palmerston North, purely because it had a rugby museum! The guy didn't seem too sure where Newport was but he should have because there was plenty of newport rugby stuff there, flyers from games against new zealand, a huge display dedicated to Wales!!:) It was ace!