The East coast, it turns out, has a LOT to offer. I'm in Byron at one of the travel agents providing free internet in the hope that I will book something through them. I'm not gonna, but they don't need to know that. Leaving Sydney was hard. But made much easier when the Oz Experience crew I'm with were nice and chatty. We broke down just after leaving the city, so had to mill about at 7am waiting for a replacement, but on the upside got to watch 7 episodes of Bondi Rescue en route to Surf Camp. Had fun times that evening with an amazing BBQ provided by Mojo's and played Twister. I was the 3 times champion. YES. I win. We got hammered pretty early, meaning we went to bed really early, and ended ... read more

Where was I? Melbourne I think, with the prospect of Mark Watson looming. He was excellent, which pleased me as I had persuaded Jens, my friendly Irish sounding Sweedish roommate to come along with me. But the comedy was good and we went out to sample the delights of St Kilda nightlife after. I spent the next day recovering, and didn't do very much, which kinda disappointed me because I should have been more touristy and seen some more sights. But didn't whoops. And the following day I managed to get myself to the immigration museum, to find out where all the people who live here came from (or something like that) and spent an age wandering round looking at the shops. I liked melbourne and would love to go back there to spend some more ... read more

Currently pretty pumped having just done my bungy jump. more on that later. Soooo, Invercargill was a hole. Then we headed to Te Anau. It was a wet miserable day to start off with, so we all decided against the farm show and didn't really fancy posing with any stone Wales, which we were assured travellers usually wanted to do. But we did visit Henry the oldest living Tuatara (150ish I think). Awesome. Then we had lunch at some old pub which apparently does the nices blue cod on the south island. It was nice. Fish and chips are good yeah? The journey to Te Anau was filled with stopping in random places to take pictures of the view, which was alright. Te Anau was a nice place situated by a lake with some beautiful scenery ... read more

Westport was a funny little town. It is apparently the largest town on the West coast. Well at 4pm on a wednesday afternoon, it wasn't exactly thriving that's for sure. I'd decided not to do any activities, but to chill out for the afternoon instead. So I made a spag bol for a few people, and still ended up with three meals worth to spare! It was awesome, as always! In the evening it was 'socialise' time and we headed to a pub/pizzaria and had a few bevs. I got to know a few of the people on my new bus and but didn't have a very late night. I did try and show off some poi skills in a semi dark backgarden, but broke my poi and simultaniously ripped a hole in my long sleeved ... read more