After a surprising night sleep, we got up early to head to 'Whale watch', The weather had turned, it was early, windy and the sea was rough as the rain set in. As a precaution we all took some sea sickness tablets to help the 3 hr round trip. When we arrived for our 7.45 tour we discovered that the previous tour had a group of 56 people cancel. Luckily they combinded both tours so we could continue with our trip. After a quick intro and video about whales, we w...

We wanted to hit the road to Kiakoura early as yesterday's drive was 5 hours more than expected. We quickly loaded the car and headed up to Greymouth, then headed east at Reefton down route 7. Although the weather was turning, the low cloud going through Lewis Pass created majestic views as the tops of the mountains pieced through the clouds. We stopped a few times to take in the scenery. It wasn't long before we were chasing the beautiful Waiau River all the way...

Today was going to be a full day on the road so we decided to make as many stops as possibly to break up the drive. Our aim was to head up the west coast from Queenstown to Greymouth. We headed out of Queenstown up route 6 passed the bridge bungee again. Another opportunity to do a bungee, still I couldn't do it. Maybe next time. We headed north to Wanaka, the views of Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea were amazing. The still lake mirrored the snow capped mountains tha...

Our hotel was cozy, Outside our room were two goats that entertained us for a while when we had breakfast. We all took our time getting ready. The Hotel was on Overshot road, a little outside Queenstown than we expected. Eventually we headed into Town, Last time we were here we went up the Skyline Gondola in the night so didn't get to see the amazing views from the top. This time we booked tickets for the Luge when we got to the top. The Luge is a little special...

We woke up early, checked out of our lodge and headed to Mount John which we missed out on yesterday. We decided to have breakfast on top. Stevie's sister was sharing the driving with me so she would drive us to the top. After a shaky start as she hadn't drove a manual in 4yrs we got under way 5 stalls later and the gear box grinded down to dust. We got half way up before the mountain got to steep and the car started to roll backwards. Saving the life's of the S...