New Zealand!!

Hello!! We arrived in NZ yesterday, in Aukland at the mo and it seems to be a really great city! We are at a great central backpackers and having fun exploring the city! We have a 'magic' bus pass, which will pretty much take us all over the north and south island, plus right up north to the bay of islands, which we are beginning on saturday. we leave NZ on 15 aug, so the schedule is pretty tight, but its as far as our money would take us.....!

Airlie beach was fab, our 3days sailing ion the whitsundays was an....adventure!!! The first two days involved alot of wind and raind and huge waves coming over the boat, very scary but kinda funny! Luckily the third day was gorgeous and we had some great opportunites to snorkell, laze on the beach and up on deck and the sun came our for our visit to whitehaven beach, it was so beautiful! We had a great group of people on board and had all had a good laugh.

We managed to get up to Cape Tribulation for 3days 2nights, which was also amazing. Its right in the heart of the Daintree Rainforest, and we stayed in a beach house, right by the gorgeous sandy Cape Trib beach, where the rainforest meets the sandy beach. Only trouble was i saw a very very big and long black snake on the path infront of me, when i was on my own at night!! i freaked out a bit needless to say and simon was no-where to be seen!! We went jungle surfing, which was great fun, and a great way to see the amazing rainforest.

Hope all you guys are ok!