As the humidity finally kicks in Peter finds comfort in the air conditioned internet cafe, and remembers about the whole blogging thing.... So then - Australia! I started in Brisbane where I stayed for a few nights with Nene and Denise (who I meet at the Wilderness Park in NZ back in September). I arrived in a thunder storm complete with tennis ball sized hail and 35 degrees heat, well this is different to Auckland I thought! Alas it didn't last long, and since its been what I consider to be 'far too hot' but what Queenslanders like to call, 'really [View Full Entry]

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Well, after ten months this is my final blog from New Zealand! It does feel quite sad to be leaving, but at least i'm not coming straight home, i'm off to Brisbane in the morning. It has to be said that New Zealand has been a great place to spend the last year, to see its wonderfully contrasting countrysides and experience life as a semi-kiwi for a while. Most of all Wwoofing as been an excellent way to get to know locals and learn about saving the world of course! Just thinking about it i've wwoofed at ten places, i've had [View Full Entry]

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Well its finally November and that means i've only two more weeks in New Zealand! More to the point it means i've got to actually leave Wellington, something I have to admit i'm slightly sad about. Wellington is such an amazingly lovely city, I didn't realise how much until my sister asked if i'd consider living here! Whilst here this time i've been working in a backpackers, painted like a zebra and called the Wildlife House. It was hard work but luckly I only did it for 4 hours a day, which has made my Kiwi bank account look somewhat better. [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys, not such a sunny entry this time! I'm hanging out in Wellington for the next month or so and it's been windy for the last few days, I only just made it across the Cook Strait (from the South Island) with the ferries cancelled due to the weather now. The joy of NZ in springtime... To catch up when I got back from Raro I had the minimum time possible in Chrischurch (horrible city!), where the only exciting thing to happen was I heard a meteorite - see this link (http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Reference/Backgrounders/SpaceJunk/). Basically it was just a bang that was [View Full Entry]

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Yes thats right folks I just escaped the joys of New Zealand winter for whole 11 days in the tropical paradise of Rarotonga!! I'd no idea where the place was before I got there, so lets bascially say the Cook Islands are in the middle of the Pacific, south of Hawaii and east of French Polynesia. You can look it up if you want but the place is too small to be on most maps! Since I last blogged I spent a few weeks in a placed called Little River just outside Chch, with Sally and Richard Gabric, a Japanese wwoofer [View Full Entry]

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So I’ve finally left the West Coast after over six weeks, collectively, of changing beds, scrubbing showers, cleaning the rainforest and, in Lisa’s more insane moments, hoovering the rocks!! Actually I’m quite sad to have left the place I’ve by far spend the most time in since I arrived in nz. Te Nikau was an amazing place to be, I meet some great, and some very, very weird people. I don’t think there is anywhere quite like Punakaiki and I can think Lisa enough for putting up with me for so long! Enough of the Oscar speech, and back to the [View Full Entry]

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This is my first blog entry as Uncle Peter! My sister had her baby on the 15th July, he's healthy and doing well by all accounts (detailed one's about feeding and the like I get from a women i'm now calling grandmother!). He's called Tai Salvador Meyer Jackson, though I don't think we need say all that at once. I'm very annoyed at being on the other side of the world but Helen assure me i'm only going to miss the gross bits!!! Anyway, where did i leave you all last time, Invercargill? That was not the most interesting place in [View Full Entry]

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Well i've finally made it to the 'bottom of the world'!!! I've been travelling south for about a week and a half now from Puni and as predicted it has gotten colder all the way but there's been plenty to entertain me on the way down. I got a very handy life from the Te Nikau (the hostel) with an American girl (Courtney) who was heading to Okarito, a tiny little place on the end of 'Westland' thats got beautiful beaches and amazing sunsets. Its famous as the home of the author of a NZ book 'The Bone People', this women's [View Full Entry]

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Following a few more days of drunkeness and cultures in Wellington (my favourite NZ city so far) - where I meet up with a few guys from the orchard, and even the owners - I finally made it across the Cook Strait to the South Island. The crossing is well known as being highly dangerous, but also beautiful as you enter into the Marlborough Sounds. This means 'fijords' for those of you as uniformed as I. Alas on the day I ventured across its was very safe, calm, and hoggy as hell! You could literally see nothing and we were amused [View Full Entry]

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Having final picked my last apple i've travelled South to Capital City and become a Wwoofer again! Wellington City itself has about the population of Newcastle but is a lot less developed and has nature right on its doorstep. Its basically built on mountains, which are amazing, and remind me somewhat of Bergen without the snow. On a good day you can see the South Island. As you can see from the photos i've visited the Parliament of NZ, which was very interesting if, well you are me!. I was impressed by the openness and lack of OTT security - Tony [View Full Entry]

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