Last 15 days....

NOTE: This is awfully written (Just a summary of so much that has happened and I've missed out loads. The guys don't want to spend to long waiting for me to write hahaha Need to get on the road!)

A lot has happen in the last 2 weeks or so, I'll try to summarise. We spent 2 days in Wanaka where we met two nice German ladies and a bloke from Middlesbrough and took them to our beach paradise freeplace to camp, had a super fun night. Next day we headed south to Queenstown which is a nice town in amongst the mountains, the skatepark is amazing and we met our friend from home, Mike Halls whos been out here for a year and 3 months. Was cool to catch up with him, we also all got the legendary Fergburger! From here we traveled south, then west through Te Anau and up the west coast to Milford Sound. Google this place, it's mountains covered in lush green vegatation with waterfalls everywhere and clouds same level as the road!! Unfortunately when we got their the weather was awful and we didn't have much of a view because of the weather but the waterfalls alone were fantastic and we drove through a tunnel under mountain which was dark and somewhat scary.

Heading back south we passed through Manapori then onto the 'Souther Scenic Route'. We stopped at Lake Hauroko, the deepest lake in NZ (the 8th deepest in world!) the view was amazing but sandflies were horrible here, we got bitten so much.... erghh. From here we passed through Tuatapere apprently the sausage capital of NZ hahahaa and then stopped in Riverton (oldest town on South Island) which was cool. Paying to camp at a site we had an amazing leisure area to play pool, watch tv, table tennis etc (a rare luxury!).
Entering Invercargill, the most southern city, we didn't do a great deal but we stayed a couple of days nonetheless and went to the cinema to watch Where the wild things are (which I loved!!). We found a Woolworths supermarket which is cool for the old English shop even though this is different. Here we soon found out our van boot is broken which sucks! We can't access stuff thats in draws blocked in so had to buy new saucepans and stuff. As we were pissed off we indulged in a Domino's, I got the 'Mr Wedge' Pizza. So good, but so filling with meat and potato on a pizza! Hahaha.

As we were so far down south we went to Bluff and then Slope Point (The FURTHEST SOUTHERN POINT OF MAINLAND NZ! We now need to reach the furthest north!!!) Here we camped by a beach where we met 4 kiwi surfer girls that invited us into their tent for beers and ghost stories, they were super nice teaching us NZ slang and stuff about surfing etc.
We traveled through the Catlins staying at another beautiful beach where we met a cool couple (french and kiwi) who got stuck in sand! We gave them a lift to garage to get tyres changed etc. From here they told us about this gypsy caravan near by of incredible inventions! This was one of the highlights of the trip, an old Leyland bus ful of quirky trippy inventions. There was a thoughts theatre for another $5 which was even more mind blowing. It's so hard to describe how ingenious the inventions were.

Next we traveled through Dunedin which was cool although we came across some skatty bogen girls. Stopped In Palmerston and Oamaru where we found some amazing second hand antique shops where I got some $1 flanel shirts and a rad vintage stella glass from 60's with nz import stuff engraved in. Now we had to retrace some steps and go through Kurow and Wanaka again. Driving into Wanaka we passed the skydive centre so we thought we'd inquire. They said we could do it right then, so we did!!! We did it from the maximum height of 15,000 ft! One of the most epic experiences ever! If you have the money skydive, and Wanaka has some of most beautiful scenery!

So now we're back in Wanaka our favourite place so far! I love Wanaka and might try get a job here after we done the north island. Still so much to see but Wanaka is the best!!! Gonna visit a brewery later then head up the West coast and eventually land in Nelson by Xmas!! One week to go!