After Kaikoura, we drove to Golden bay and Nelson, for some spit, wine and paddling action.

The bottom of New Zealand was beautiful …. but rainy and wet. After a night in Dunedin, we decided to leg it all the way back up to Kaikoura, to stay again with our friend Tony at the mini backpackers. Again, we had some great surf days.

Due to the cold weather, we didn’t stay long on The bottom of South island. After Dunedin we legged it back to Kaikoura. Not many pics on this leg.

Skipping Queenstown (other than to buy pies), we headed to beautiful Glenorchy.

Wow. Stunning. Wow.

We picked up some cool hitchhikers and drove to beautiful Wanaka. The highlight was hiking Roy’s peak, a tough up and down but worth it.

We headed to the Franz Joesef and Fox glaciers.

We nipped past Christchurch to visit Akaroa, a surprisingly little French NZ town. After a quick jet boot jaunt, we pootled on through the beautiful Arthur’s pass to get to the West coast.