Had a late get up this morning, the weather was a little better than yesterday but it was still over cast raining off and on. Nick booked an afternoon off road motor biking for the following day (deciding that downhill mountain biking might be too dangerous given his lack of experience) We decided to do a tour of Queenstown. We first walked to the Botanical gardens which had a Frisbee course (like a golf course with fairways, rings and nets rather then holes) Walked through the memorial gardens taking time to look at the heroic locals. We then visited Queenstown Lake underwater world, which was a submerged fish tank but we were inside the tank looking out at the fish and ducks. Putting $2 in the machine released food which the ducks, eels and fish went ... read more

We made plans to meet Jamie for breakfast in town and swap photos from our Africa trip which took a lot longer than we expected. Afterwards we walked around town trying to decide what we should do over the next few days we had in Queenstown. We booked our Canyoning trip and our trip to Milford sound we then met the girls for a few beers in a bar called guilty by the time we got there they were already on round 5!! A few more drinks then food then a few more drinks then off to bed ready for our Canyoning trip!!... read more

We wondered around town in shorts for the first time in ages and decided to go to Puzzling world which was a 2km walk from the town. We visited all of the illusion rooms, they were really cool there is a room where all the faces follow you and another where water runs up rather then down and a chair goes uphill. There was also a room where you go from being short to really tall. The shop and café have loads of games and puzzles that you can attempt some of them were really annoying. Our entrance fee also included the giant maze which is over 2 levels the idea is to get to all 4 coloured corners. We made it and it didn’t take us too long to do it a few people cheated ... read more

What we forgot to mention about yesterday is that we decided it would be a really good idea to go drinking after our quad bike adventure and keep on drinking . We even enlisted a number of other English travellers which was not that hard really. Anyway the reason for mentioning this is that luckily when we booked onto the Heli hike it was not until 11:15 it could have been 8:45! We got to the office and were told it was going ahead great news!!!! We were then taken to the kit room to get boots and rain gear, we were not allowed to wear our own boots which we have carried around the world. When we were all ready they put us into groups and walked us to the Heli pad. The flight up ... read more

On the bus most of today and again bad weather on a day where we are looking at scenery, first stop cape Foul wind named by captain cook as he blown off course. Then on to the pancake rocks and blow holes the sea was not quite right for the blow holes but we did see some water come out. The rocks were cool and reminded us of the great ocean road in Australia. We continued on to grey mouth where we decided not to go on the beer tour just went for a look around the town, got some food and then to bed. ... read more