Another beauty of a day! Well, sunrise should I say... 6am wake up call and 6.30am pick up by the chatty ‘everyone’s my mate’ Blackwood man for Ellie to go and throw herself out of a plane (hopefully). I’m not great in the mornings so let’s hope there’s not too many questions and chats because I can’t deal. Ellie got suited and booted straight away and was due to take off at 7am, thank god there weren’t many questions I think he could tell I was...

6.30am wake up call and a 6.45am wake up call - it was not a great feeling. I was very much in a deep sleep and quite enjoying it in fact. Up and out for the ferry to the South Island, thankfully it was sunny again and now clouds just freezing cold! There were just 10 of us on a huge coach going to the ferry and then a few more on the other side. Still not enough for even a half full bus. The ferry was three hours long and left at 8.45am, I haven’t been on ...

Nobody to wake us up this morning just the stale smell that’s still lingering in the room of what we can only suggest is Ellie’s trainers (this she is strongly disagreeing on even after Mike smelt them). The window isn’t letting enough air in to the room, we just have to smell our way through it... Both up around 8am, my back is concerning me a little. It’s very very stiff this morning. First time it’s felt this bad since I’ve had the procedure in M...

Well after the very embarrassing and god awful defeat of the all blacks last night and heading to bed almost straight after. We were kindly woken up by lots of drunk people at 2am pretty much screaming and laughing at the top of their voices for a good hour or so, why I’m not sure because they were all sat together in the other side of the bunk room. I had to put my headphones in to try and block them out with music. Wasn’t amused when most of Then felt ha...

Another cloudless, sunny day... New Zealand you are spoiling us! Thankfully we didn’t have a super early morning up and out to river valley lodge so we weren’t feeling too tired - yet! It was a long drive today but broken up a little because we had a two hour hike stopover in Tongariro National Park up to the Taranki Falls which was in amongst Mount Doom and Mount ruapehi and both of them still had snow on the peaks which made the scenery look absolute sp...