"If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go you'll find you've gone"

After leaving Motueka last week, well after running out of battery and having to jump start the car, we set off for Fox Glacier.
To get to the glacier we had to first walk through rain forest for about an hour, and then once on the ice you feel like your in a different country. Its really strange how you can see rain forest, glaciers, mountains and almost sea all in the same place. We had a group of about 15 with a guide and apart from that the ice was pretty much empty.

We picked up some hitchers and made our way to Wanaka, a very pretty ski resort, then to Queenstown where we did Milford sound, which is actually a Fiord but when they discovered Fiordland they didn't know the difference.
Milford was amazing, with mile high mountains going straight down into the sea. I think the best bit was the dolphins though, really close, swimming alongside the boat. Funny how you forget the main attraction once you've seen dolphins, what fiord?

So one of the hitchers turned out to be a bit of a psycho telling us (if he had a girlfriend) he would never let her go traveling. Me and Briony were kind of shocked and wanted to know exactly how he would stop her, apart from chaining her to the kitchen sink. Jeeeesus no wonder he hasn't got a girlfriend! All was explained when we found he'd just got out the army. I thought he was a bit intense. Another weird thing about him was how he'd stare at you and just carry on when you caught his eye, really scary especially in the rear view mirror.
He's really put me off vegetarians!

Got to Oamaru today, where we went and saw blue penguins, very cute. Unfortunetly we couldn't take photos as the flash hurts their poor little eyes.

Heading up to Christchurch tomorrow to meet an old Wellington friend.

A sweet Kiwi film is 'worlds fastest Indian'.