Chelle has finally relinquished control of the keyboard to me as she's still recovering from the last massive blog essay we did a couple of days ago - so here it is; the first blog a la Alex! We left Wanaka on Saturday morning after a brief look around. There was a market on the park so we had a quick look around that and Chelle nearly got sucked into buying some cherries cos there was a cute kid offering tasters! My cousin Dan had suggested we drive from Wanaka...

We're back after a brief spell out of reception along the West coast! On Sunday, we made our way west from Picton. We didn't quite make it all the way across to the coast, so we stopped over in a place called Murchison on route. It was a really nice campsite, right next to the Buller River, but there was one huge problem with it... the sandflies!! For those of you who've not been to New Zealand, this is the one problem with this place! They are tiny innocent loo...