Nic Hol

Dear All... Apologies that we haven't sent you any reading material for a month! The trip has just come to an end for me, and Nicole has been back in Blighty for a week now! Where did the time and the tans go?! What a month! From Melbourne we flew to Cairns and we were greeted by the warm Queensland sun! We took full advantage of the weather and enjoyed some Lagoon time. Cairns was also our gateway to the Great Barrier Reef where we snorkelled our socks off and had our first Scuba dive (I think it was the 1st and the last for poor Nicole). The reef was amazing - so many beautiful fish and sealife. We saw Giant Turtles, NEMO and friends and Parrot fish etc. We also had a boomnetting (hanging ... read more

Being that we are fast approaching the end of our NZ adventure and the fact that we haven't kept you up-to-date with our South Island adventures! We figured the easiest thing would be to update you on the last few weeks in one blog entry... So here we go... The last few weeks have been manic, it has been non stop and we have been moving along and quite a steady pace!! We left Wellington on Easter Sunday and took the Cross Island Ferry, which takes three hours and crosses the Cooks Straight (basically a good way to travel from the North to the South Island)!! We headed past the Marlborough Sounds (pretty amazing scenery) before arriving in Picton. From there we headed on to Nelson where we spent the rest of our (non existent) ... read more

Yesterday was a very strange day... I decided to launch myself out of a perfectly healthy aircraft. For some reason I really wanted to Skydive and I was told that it's a much better freefall from 15000 ft. So off I went, attached to Benny the Tandom-master who has done 5000 jumps out of a plane so I felt quite sure about putting my life in his hands! I thought the jumping process would be a lot slower eg-they would ask you if you were still happy to jump etc. But no! We shuffled to the door and then out we popped ... over the Lake. Once I stopped screaming I was able to take in the views - beautiful mountains and landscape in the sunshine. Meanwhile Benny and Joel the camera man were doing ... read more

Yes, that's right - we're off again after spending only two days in Fiji - or rather our resort (due to the torrential rain and flooded roads) we have decided that our time will be better spent in New Zealand. We have changed our flights and we leave in the morning. We would have liked to have stayed to see more of the mainland and the islands but there hasn't been a long enough dry spell to allow us to do so. The weather forecasts haven't been overly optimistic as it is meant to be pretty much the same until our origingal leaving date. However: - We are very excited to be going to NZ - We have had Fiji bitter lager (Good stuff) - And we have also had Fijian facials (to pass the ... read more