Hi all, So yeah....from Christchurch we made the windy (and windy) drive to the bottom of Mt.Cook. Very weird to see snow and mountains from a mainly beach dominated tour so far! Spent the night there in our luxury Toyota Corolla (!) bit chilly...woke up with frost on the windscreen and my entire wardrobe on! haha :) So at about 8am - all kitted up we began the climb..made our way to Sealey Tarns (alt. approx 1700m) pretty tough work up as u might or might not...

Again, another long time between blogs... So next up for our trip was a Super 14 Rugby game between Auckland Blues and Western Force, Force won 27-17 - not the best game of rugby ever but the seating was really close to the action so it was cool! There was also some amusing banter between some South African guys and 2 kiwis, something along the lines of "the sharks ate you guys for breakfast" (dont worry if you dont understand - sharks are the Super 14...

Next on the journey was Magnetic Island, we got there..just! Our Oz Experience bus broke down in the middle of nowhere (something to do with the gears). Passed the time with a bit of rugby and Crocodile Dundee DVD on the bus. After a couple of hours another bus came to our rescue and got us to Townsville and the ferry across to the island J Bit choppy on the way and got pretty wet, unluckily for us the umbrella was just out of hand for the first wave! Weather ...