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Zak and Mel's Excellent Adventure
Thanks to everyone for your messages we really love receiving them and hearing about what's going on at home. Headed towards Golden Bay (top of the South Island) for New Years and stayed in a place called Takaka which is a chilled out place with lots of artsy shops, etc. While we were up in Golden Bay we checked out Farewell Spit - where a lot of whales getting stranded (there were over 100 just before Xmas). Went to a tiny wee town called Collingwood and also went to Wharariki Beach which has some beautiful sand dunes. We went to Pupu Springs - the largest freshwater springs in NZ and supposedly the clearest in the world. New Years Eve was supposed to be relaxed but in true Mel and Zak style ended up being a debaucherous affair. We went to an old motel which had a cheesy DJ (think wedding reception music and you'll be bang on). Met a group of NZ loons and got wrecked with them. One of them puked on Zak's foot which was nice! Set off fireworks back at the campsite at 4.00am which pleased those who were trying to sleep and needless to say Mel spent the following day with her head down the toilet!!! While we were up there we also bumped into Alana (the girl we met in Hawaii- very spooky!!!) she was up there climbing with her boyfriend and they very kindly gave us a lesson the next day which we both loved. On the way back to christchurch we stopped off in Kaikoura we couldn't get a space in a camp site so we stayed in the wop wops(bush). The following morning we got up at 5 am and went swimming with about 200 dusky dolphins, which was unreal. There are about 15,000 dolphins which live off the Kaikoura coast so you can pretty much guarantee to see tons of them. The following day back in CH, we set off to go white water rafting on the Rangitata river which we would recommend to anyone it was really really awesome. There were some hairy moments as you can see from the pics but still great fun. Last night we had dinner with the family and had a few too many so we are nursing hangovers and getting ready for our flight to Oz. We land in Cairns at 10.20pm so we'll see you there! xxxxx
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