south island

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The ferry accross from north to south island is meant to be one of the most sceinic crossings in the world and it did not dissapoint, it was freezing cold and the canteen was on a par with british rail but it was a nice way to spend 3 hours.

We blasted over to the west coast and ended up in this little one horse town (we had already gone through a town claiming to be a 3 horse town, very strange). And here we finally decided to eat out and it was our best meal of NZ. roast beef glugged down with local beer, top dollar!

We went on down the weat caost stopping in Te Anau and milford sound for 3 days before crossing over to the east coast and wending our way back to the ferry and back up to Aukland. 4500k in total and I only saw one speed camera which should have been triggered as I went through it at twice the limit while pointing at it saying ere look at that Dionne it looks like a .........fuck! Dionne was adjusting her knickers or something at the time and never saw anything! Women!

Unfortunatly D has worked out how to download pictures which means more of me in embarissing poses .....damn

Matt


Hiya

The south Island was just amazing some of my dreams came true. We went and saw the albatrosses nesting area. when we got there they were flying above us it was just amazing they have a 10 foot wing span. We then went up to the viewing area, they are sitting on the nest at the mo so could see them up close.

We also went Kayaking down an amazing river we had to drag the kayak up rapids it was hard work but so so worth it especailly when coming down them It was a bit scary at first but I well got into it and wanted more more more!!!!. I must admitt I was glad it was not Oz I was thinking there could be snakes in the water. Matthew decided to be all matcho he tried to kayak up a rapid DOH!!! it was a beep bit and he went right under the kayak. I was just so scared, it did add to the excitment!!!!

We went to a lovely little sea side town, were we went star watching one evening. Using a laser beem the stars and planets were pointed out to us it was brilliant. We saw lots of shooting stars and the milky way we also looked through a large telescope to see them up close awesome.

Milford sounds which is in Fiordland at the bottom of the south island was beautiful. everything I had hoped for and more. We took a boat trip along the sounds and were lucky to see 6 crested penguins, they are the rarest penguin in the world and are so tiny and very cute.

Well I hope you are all well and had a lovely christmas.

Wishing you all a very happy new year.

I would like to apologise for the over use of brillant, awesome, beautiful in the blog I just could not help it sorry.

Love
Dee
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Comments

[Hilda]

Hello South Island NZ
Hi, Dionne. Nice experience kayaking......must be scary... We had a quiet xmas at work with only few pts. Best Wishes for the coming New Year 2007. Enjoy Australia. See you soon. Take care. Hilda

[Karen]

Just sooooo jealous, man ...
..... seriously, the photos look amazing and reading your text makes me want to go and see everything for myself. As Dionne said, awesome ... .... enjoy Oz and thanks for the text. HAPPY NEW YEAR, YOU GUYS WITH LOVE FROM US ALL XXX

[anonymous]

where is everyone?
Obviously life in OZ is so bonza there's no time left for we poor Poms, or is it being so close to the Ozzy vino that your never sober enough to see the keyboard? NZ seems all you hoped for and more, pictures and super,brill, awesome comments speak for themselves. What happened then?...... arrive in OZ, was it stormy/raining?.......two weeks later and not a dicky bird, methinks you both must be crook or gone walkabout. FA Cup draw Toon v Reading(possibly) might even be worth coming back for!!!! back to life as we know it, we all want more news and more photos, so stop enjoying yourselves and log a blog......PLEASE

[the Joneses]

we're here
yes life has been full on since we arrived in Aus but we have based ourselves in Melbourne for 4 days to catch up