One month after we started using our brand new laptop it broke and the problem appears to be terminal, this has hampered my blog writing a little so get ready for a lot of info in a short blog, ok, deep breath, here goes......
As soon as we got back from our road trip we were off to an Alpaca farm in Kumeu where we worked for one week for a couple of gay farmers, picking weeds, moving heavy things and cleaning in return for food and board, they took us to a gay festival on the last day and dropped us off in Auckland. In the city we went to the -5 degrees ice bar, ate good mexican food and sang in a private karaoke bar.
Next we got on the ferry to the coromandel where we visited the waterworks, an awesome water themed playground for all ages, we had a go on zip wires, swings, ET bikes and squirted chickens with water cannons. We flew to the south island and landed in Christchurch where i got an awesome tattoo of an old school 50's microphone, we saw some awesome busking, visited the international antarctic centre (ice world) and had an exciting ride in a Hagglund transporter + saw some penguins.
We saw a man with a glorious mullett juggle and ride a huge unicycle, saw a good band 'The Meaniez' play by the avon and caught a train to Kaikoura where we rode segways along the coast, up and down hills and on the beach + dodged doddering old ladies in the street, it was lots of fun, off road segwaying is awesome. That night we went stargazing in a dark farm field and saw great views of the milky way.
We went to Nelson and stayed at the fantastic Green Monkey hostel, highly recommended accomodation, Steve looked after us very well, in Nelson we visited founders heritage park, ate at 'Bloody big burger' and yes they were BLOODY big and went to a bone carving workshop where we made our own bone pendants. We travelled to picton where we went sea kayaking in the marlborough sounds, got our car back and travelled to Punakaiki where we stayed in a hostel in the middle of a rainforest, drove on to the Fox glacier which we trekked up and saw amazing views.
Carried on to Wanaka where we went to Stuart Landsboroughs puzzling world and checked out the maze and various illusions, spent 4 nights in Queenstown where we both did bungy jumps, i did the highest in Australasia, the Nevis bungy at 440ft high and Amy did the Kawarau bridge jump, the worlds first bungy site. Amy went horse trekking and i went canyoning which was the most extreme thing i've ever done.
Took a cruise around milford sound and saw amazing views, visited the moonshine museum in Gore, sampled the whisky (FIERY) saw a statue of a big fish and carried on to Invercargill where i bought a cheap guitar and we had the worlds hottest pizza. Drove on to Dunedin, stopped on the way to see the lost gypsies gallery which was amazing and full of curios and animated objects, i just can't put it into worlds but it was certainly a highlight of the trip. Saw a lovely waterfall, made it to Dunedin which had a great art gallery + we walked up the steepest street in the world and got a certificate to prove it.
Now we are back in Christchurch and will very soon be going to work on another farm, more soon...........
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