Today we awoke up to an extremely wet and gloomy day in Haast, very pleased we had predicted the forecast correctly, and chose to sleep inside! We lazily got ready to leave this sand fly infested area behind with a trip to Milford Sound. We stopped off a Te Anau before awaking the next day to head on to Milford Sound. Milford Sound is a valley carved by a glacier and is now flooded by the sea, they know it was cut by a glacier because the bottom of the valley ...

We had to be up early today to prepare ourselves for what was going to be a fantastic day on Franz Josef! One of the fastest growing glaciers YUP Growing despite the so called global warming. In fact it can and does grow up to a meter daily. And to make it even more interesting its in the middle of a rain forest, and would take a week or so to get to the top. There is a Maori mythology and, here it is??.Hine Hukatere, an adventurous Maori Wahine (woman) who loved...

Hi Peeps, Well I have just go settled onto my new room! The house is really cool, you can move most of the walls technically I could move my room around the house! Bet you would like that mum! My room has 1 back wall in it which is much like a chalk board, hence the strong temptation to get some chalk and right a list of things on the wall! The neighbourhood appears quite nice and the people I live with are really nice Nicole and Julie, Nicole is French and h...

Hot Water beach (Martarangi) Wow You drive for an hour or so from Martarangi, you pull into a car park in front of a beach , just a normal looking beach with one exception everyone has a big spade with them and I mean the type you would use in your garden. You carry on down the beach and see lots of big holes in the sand and people sat in them. Hot water pools! You just dig a little hole to see if you can find some hot water if you strike lucky, you build a...

New years Eve, I travel for about 4 hours to a place called Martarangi quite a long drive as the maximum speed is only 60mph and the roads just go for ever, so it gets really boring, on some of the roads you can let go of the wheel and still not have hold of it 3k later! But eventually you get to some really windy roads and a biiig hill a 3km road that climbs 500m just out side the Coromandel Choice road for cycling!! For New Years Eve, we had a really ni...