Wilie Nelson

As the man famously says "On the road again". So for those who don't know we are on the move again. After a disappointing weekend in Melbourne, Ireland were so crap its unreal, we arrived back in Sydney and realised we were not happy at all with the situation we were in, not seeing each other at all, etc and decided to make a move for home a few months early. So 12 days later we are in New Zealand.

Its absolutely amazing over here, the scenery is amazing around every corner and its the diversity as well, On one side of the road is Burrenesque mountains, the other side is Lush green forest and fields, and running along side the road is the turquoise Kawarra river. This place is a walking talking Lord of The rings set literally.
Apparently you can see famous cliffs, 1.5m high, where some guy fell off in the 2nd movie. Mount Doom etc, can you guess I have no real interest in the films...

So we landed in Christchurch, "The most English town in NZ".
Stayed for a day or 2 and rented our spaceship named "Cosmo"
for traveling around NZ,
Then made our way to Akaroa on the first night where we got to swim with Dolphins in freezing cold pacific waters which was amazing, the Hectors dolphin is the worlds smallest at least populous too. Then we started the trip to "NZ's most Scottish town" Dunedin stopped short of it in a town called Hampden where the main tourist attraction is the "Moeraki Boulders" which are big round rocks in the sand, mmm interesting, and yes we still did go to see them. We then completed the trip to Dunedin where we went to see Cadbury world, Mmmmm tour was aimed at kids a little but was ok, The 2 story dropping of a chocolate waterfall was fun and the smell of the factory was amazing. The idea of a country that is less comfortable weather wise to live in is interesting, Dunedin is the place where all the Antartic scientists start their trips from so camping at night as you can imagine is interesting to say the least.

We then drove out the Otago peninsula and saw an albatross colony but refused to pay the excessive price to go see Penguins. Slept there for the night and toyed around with the idea of going down to the Catlains region but decided to go straight to queenstown, The adrenalin capital of NZ, All these towns have titles don't they, Home of the worlds 1st commercial Bungy jump over the Kewarra river, and about 4 other Bungy jump sites too. I was going to Jump down here but with it being $50 cheaper on the North island I reckon I'm going to wait until we get up there. I also may have Siobhain convinced to do it as well, Muu HaaaHaa. Today I did a canyon swing (www.canyonswing.co.nz) which is a 60m free fall before swinging into a 200m Arch, amazing to say the least.


So we have a days rest here and then are moving up to Franz Joseph which is a glacier and we'll take it from there.

Talk Soon