Wow I really have been utterly rubbish at keeping upto date with my journal in New Zealand and now I've just arrived back in Oz I thought I better finish off with what I did for the second half of NZ.
Okay I gotta try and remember, from Lake Wanaka we travelled south to Queenstown, woohoo at last a place in New Zealand that has some sort of nightlife!! I've gotten use to early nights and even earlier mornings travelling NZ and no longer have the capabilities to go and party.....humm well sort of! So Queenstown beside being party capital of NZ is also the home of extreme sports, you name it they have it. Four nights we stayed in Queenstown, firstly we did a trip to Milford Sound. Beautiful place but we had shocking weather which was a bit pants. 10hr return journey on a coach for an hour and half boat ride.....worth it??? Not so sure. The following day we did white water rafting which considering were classed as grade 4 rapids left us feeling a tad disappointed. Other activities in Queenstown included luging, much fun going down a mountain on go-karts. I would like to mention I beat Jules 4 laps to 2, though she claimed to have won the last two and reckons you're only as good as your last race or something...... Went to the ice bar, over priced for what it is and then spent what seemed like in ages a day laying in and chilling out. Oh yes after much much deliberation we bottled out of the bungi jump...sigh!
From Queenstown the magical bus took us round to Dunedin. Wow this place is dull and has lots of old people (no offence old people) considering it's home to NZ biggest university. Here I did yet another brewery tour (Speight's) which was probably the best one so far. The only other thing that was nearby Dunedin was the worlds tallest street! Exciting I know, I was the only one who attempted to run up it and seriously nearly died by the time I got to the top nevertheless, Al 1 - Tallest Street 0.
From Dunedin we headed for Lake Tekapo, which had probably the best hostel in the world and absolutely stunning scenery. Not much at all to do here and good job as we only had a night, so upon arrival a group of us went kayaking (I know more bloody kayaking, I'll be a pro by the time I'm finished), then had a nice bbq in the evening. Very Civilised....
And that was that for the South Island from there we headed to the north and the land of Mr and Mrs Bolton!
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