We left Wanaka around 8.30am and headed for the wonderful place that is Queenstown. I had heard of Queenstown before we even started our trip and everyone that we had met in Australia had also told us that Queenstown was the best place in New Zealand. So there were high expectations! We stopped just outside the town at the AJ Hackett Bungy Centre, The Kawarau Bridge! This was the first ever commercial bungy site and I was orginally hoping to do my bungy here. However the Nevis was mentioned. The bridge bungy was 43m and the Nevis was a 'little' higher at 134m, the 2nd biggest bungy in the world. Of course I ended up choosing the Nevis. We booked our bungy for the following day and the watched Gina, a girl from our bus, do ... read more

Hello!!! We finally made it to New Zealand! It is going to be difficult to do the blog for New Zealand because we are always moving on a coach tour called the Kiwi Experience, so I am going to write about NZ in sections. First off we landed at 10.30pm in Christchurch and we were leaving at 8.05am the next day! We went to our hostel via shuttle and once we had dropped our stuff off, we went to the local diner where a truely memorable moment occured! A random local girl started winking at Dan and then got a waitress to bring him her number written on a napkin! She ran off when we turned around and Dan and I couldn't stop laughing. Once we were up, the next morning, we got on to a ... read more

So after another long bus journey we arrived in chilly Melbourne. It wasn't as straight forward, to find our hostel, as usual. First we had to get a tram to St Kilda, then we had to figure out which stop St Kilda was because the trams don't actually let you know and finally we had to find our hostel. It took a good hour to find the hostel. It was a very modern hostel called Base and it had card key locks and an ensuite in every room. The first thing we did was make our way to Melbourne Cricket Ground, the MCG! We were going to watch an AFL (Aussie Rules) game between two rival teams, Carlton and Collingwood. We went with an American girl, called Cindy, from our dorm. She knew more than most ... read more

After an evening in Brisbane and a night in a pretty bad hostel, we were heading to Australia Zoo! Our tour guide, for the journey there and back, had worked at the zoo before and was a family friend of the Irwin's. He should us a DVD of Steve Irwin's life on the way there and a picture of him, Steve, Steve's wife and a Tiger! Once we arrived at the Zoo, we could tell that it wasn't like any other Zoo. One of the keepers was taking a Wombat out for a walk, on a lead, around the public paths! We headed for the elephant feeding and had our pictures taken whilst feeding the elephants a tasty carrot! Next we raced to the 'Crocoseum' to watch the Crocodile show! The show started with a snake ... read more

We arrived in Airlie Beach around 11am and had to be on our sailing boat ready for the Whitsundays trip within an hour! As you can imagine this was a bit of a rush and we made it by 1 minute. We were told that we would need a towel and however much alcohol you wanted. So we bought a crate of beer and were on our way to the docks. Now our boat was called Condor and apparently it has won lots of races all around the world. However this piece of information only made me think that I was going to be seasick whilst onboard. So off I went to the little shop and purchased some completely over priced seasick tablets, and you will be pleased to hear that they did the job and ... read more