NEW ZEALAND...SOUTH ISLAND

ON THE WAY TO QUEENSTOWN THE SEXY EARLY MORNING SUN BROKE THROUGH THE CLOUDS. THIS CHURCH JUST HAPPENED TO GET LIT UP WHEN WE WERE PASSING. THE SHEEPS ARE PLENTIFUL. MANDATORY BREAKFEAST SANDWICH STACKING WAS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PARTS OF THE DAY. CHAY KNOWS HOW TO STACK IT CORRECTLY. STREET SEAT RESTAURANT...FERTIG/DONE!
WE ENDED UP GOING OUT TO EXPLORE "GLENNORCHY" FOR THE DAY. A BUNCH OF FILMS HAVE BEEN FILMED OT THERE DUE TO THE SPECTACULAR LANDSCAPE: LORD OF THE RINGS, THE NEW WOLVERINE MOVIE ETC. THE WHOLE DRIVE OUT THERE WRAPPED AROUND A LAKE AND THE SIGHTS WERE ENDLESS. THE SUN BEAMING THROUGH THE CLOUDS WAS SO RAD. THE LAND CHANGES ARE VAST. ON MI UTE YOUR DRIVING THROUGH A MASSIVE MOPEN LAKESIDE FIELD WITH WILD HORSES GALLOPING ALONGSIDE THE CAR. WITHIN MINUTES YU ARE CRUISING THROUGH A GREEN MOSS COVERED RAINFORREST WITH THE ECHOING SPLASHING SOUNDS OF MULTIPLE WATERFALLS...

NEW ZEALAND...SOUTH ISLAND...

we woke up lakeside on the west coast! it was an amzing scene. the lake was covered in a light fog and the sun was just waking up. a quick sandwich, teeth scrub and we were of the franz josef glacier.
ofcourse we stopped for many a photo along the way setting us back in time. a broken bridge, horse mang, chay mang, himmerz mang, pure sheep mang.
unfortunatly we were unable to get a guided tour at franz josef, so we drove to the next town were the fox glacier lye dead. $90, a quick bus ride, endless guide blabbering, a 1.5 hour rainforrest walk and we had reached the entry point to the glacier.
it was cold, wet, windy, dangerous. and by the time we had reached it we were soaked. t=shoes slipping and slopping. the guide belted some crampons (spikes) to the bottom of our shoes for maximum grip on the ice. all in all it was amazing. if u ever get the chance bomb it!!
tired from the long walk we stacked a pub eatdown and were on our way. we were heading south towards queenstown. we wanted to arrive there as early as we could the next morning to make then most of it. after a 4 hour drive, a couple near misses of possums, running over a massive fallen tree branch wich covered the road (somhow not blowing out our tyres). the rain turned to hail. the roads extremly slippery and the mountians literaly turning into waterfalls wich blocked of half of the road we set up camp at a lake look out. the following morning the sites were amazing and weset of for queenstown..................

NEW ZEALAND. SOUTH ISLAND. 1

"life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans" - john lennon

A FEW WEEKS AGO WE WERE LOOKING FOR A FLIGHT TO MELBOURNE. WE ENDED UP SCORING A FLIGHT FROM SYDNEY TO CHRISTCHURCH FOR $165 RETURN. DONE/FERTIG FROM THE 12TH OF MAY IT WAS ONNNNNNNNN!!!
MARY JANE AND MYSELF HIRED A VAN. GERMAN HOMEBOY PHILIP TURNED UP TO MEET US IN THE MOST STINGING STACKLORD VAN! BY THE TIME WE LEFT CHRISTCHURCH AND PICKED UP SOME MUCH NEEDED STACKING MATERIALS IT WAS DARK. WE DROVE 2 HOURS TOO HAMMOND SPRINGS. WE COULDNT SEE THE SPRINGS SO WE JUST PARKED UP FOR THE NIGHT. PULLED THE GYPSY COOOKER OUTOF THE VAN AND COOKED UP SOME SOUP ON THE STREET WHILE HITTING THAT FRUITY OVER-PRICED WINE SACK. IT WAS SUPER COLD SO WE MOBBED IT INTO PHILIPS VAN AND HAD AN AMAZING DRUNKEN STORY TIME. THIS ENDED UP BECOMING A END OF THE DAY RITUAL. I THINK WE ENDED UPREPEATING ALL THE CONVERSATIONS FROM NIGHT TO NIGHT. DUE TO OUR DRUNKEN BRAINS FORGETTING WHAT WAS DISCUSSED THE NIGHT BEFORE.
THE FOLLOWING MORNING WE WENT TO THE SPRINGS. TO OUR DISAPOINTMENT THEY WERE MAN MADE. THEY WERE LIERALY WAMRED UP POOLS. BOLLOCKS. SO WE WENT IN SEARCH OF SOME NATURAL HOTSPRINGS WITH SOME SKETCHY DIRECTIONS IN HAND. A LITTLE PASSED A SMALL TOWN NAMED BOYLE WE FINALY FOUND THEM. AFTER NEALLY BEING RAN OF THE ROAD BY A MAD TRUCK DRIVER. THE SPRINGS WERE "SOOOOOOOOOO DOOOOPE". THEY WERE AS WARM AS A WARM BATH. AROUND 45 DEGREES. NEXT TO IT WAS A FREEZING COLD RIVER. WE BOMBED INTO THE RIVER AND BACK INTO THE SPRINGS HIGHTENING ALL SENSES! SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND. NOT A SOLE IN SIGHT. NO $20 CHARGE. THE REAL DEAL. WE WERE IN HEAVEN! UNTIL.... BZZZZZZZZZ THE SANDFLIES MOBBED ON US! ONCE WE BAILED ABOUT 15 MIUTES UP THE ROAD IT HAD JUST SNOWED. TREES AND GROUND COVERED IN A LIGHT WHITE WINTERY COAT. I WAS SO SO SO FUCKING PSYCHED AS IVE NEVER SEEN IT SNOW BEFORE.
WE FOUND OURSELVES STOPPPING EVERY 5 MINUTES SNAPPING ENDLESS AMAZING COUNTRYSIDE. IVE NEVER BEEN ANYWERE LIKE IT. ONE MINUTE ITS SNWOING. THE NEXT YOUR DRIVING THROUGH A WATERFALL FILLED RAIN FORREST WITH TREES COVERED IN A GREEN MOSS. THE ROADS WERE SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS. A UTE (PICK UP TRUCK) CAME SCREAMING AROUND A CORNER. SLIDDING SIDE WAYS IN THE WET AT OUR CAR WITH ENOUGH SPEED TO FATALY DESTROY OUR TRIP. SOMEHOW LAST MINUTE THE CAR STRAIGHTENED AND A DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF FROM CHAY CHAY THE HIGHWAY MAYNE.
AT THE END OF THE DAY WE STUMBLED BY A SUPER RAD OLD FARM WITH ALLL THESE OLD RUINED TRUCKS. I JUST CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF IT AS WE CRUSIED PAST. I DEMANDED THAT WE STOP AND GO BACK FOR THE 3 MILLIONTH TIME THAT DAY. AND THANKGOD WE DID COS IT WAS A GOLDMINE FOR PHOTOS! WE MADE THE WEST COAST JUST IN TIME FOR SUNSET, AS WE DROVE SOUTH WE WATCHED THE SUN DIVE DEEP INTO THE OCEAN. WE HAD DROVE FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER IN ONE DAY. ALL GOING TO PLAN.