The first day Peter stayed in bed and I went to the I-site to get some information about walking and kayaking in the Abel Tasman national park. I ended up booking both, but I still didn’t know when I was going to do on what day, because for the kayaking trip there was a minimum of 2 persons. I also went to the museum of Motueka. Although I don’t think you could call it a museum, because it only told a story of one family and how they went from England to New Zealand. But I had fun reading and seeing the story. Read More...

After a good night sleep and a good breakfast in the hostel we went on the road again! The first stop that day would be the “ Buller Gorge Swingbridge”, this is the longest swingbridge in NZ. There we were also trying to find gold, I only found 3 small pieces (maybe for 5 euro). What we did found though were a lot of sandflies, well actually they found us! We were eaten alive near the water!!! So I got out of there quite quickly.

After this we drove straight to Motueka, where Peter went straight to bed and I wandered a bit through the town to see what I could do there in the next few days!

Cheers,
Paul

After another night in a terrible bed we had to check out. Peter did his skydive over Fox Glacier and I just had a great breakfast with Dave. He made me a great breakfast (toast with ham, cheese and mushrooms!!!). It had been a long time since I really had time to have breakfast! When Peter got back he didn’t feel so good, so it was up to me to get us to Westport . Because Peter didn’t feel well at all, we stopped in Hokitika to get him to a doctor. There they said that he had a mild concussion from the bungee jump! After that news we went to see “Percy the Kiwi”, which was quite fun. I knew they lived at night, but they are completely blind! It took him 3 times to get into his hole (missed the first 2 times by hitting his head on the wall!).

The next stop was the pancake rocks. I only have one good picture of those rocks (including Peter). The pancake rocks were fun to see, but I wouldn’t like to stay there for a long time!


Peter sitting on the pancake rocks

That evening we went to stay in Westport to get some sleep!

Cheers,
Paul

Here I did the full day glacier walk on the 'fox glacier'! First we had to walk for about 1.5 hours to get on the glacier, but this was a beautifull walk with a nice view of the glacier itself. But it was too beautifull, therefore I made too many pictures. I could walk there with my camera in my hand and only take pictures, because every meter was different! Read More...

Queenstown is the city where a lot of people go to, to jump of the Nevis bungeejump, or to go skydiving. The evening we arrived in Queenstown we went to a bar with some people we met in the dorm, they were from Auckland and they brought us to a bar where we got a 'vulcano' and a 'flaming Ferrari'. This was a drink that was set on fire before you had to drink it. This was great though! Read More...