we have arrived in Nz

Hello!

So our last few days in Australia were brill! Went up in to the rain forest to a little village called Kuranda! So we stayed in a resort but nothing swanky as we stayed in the backpacker’s accommodation. It was crazy as it was full of bugs! Well what can you do? You’re in the middle of a rain forest! Saw the biggest moth every! It was as long as my arm! No lie we took a picture of it! And its body was as big as my thumb!

So 1^st day we walked into town after checking in and sorting ourselves out. After finding some food we walked 5k to Barron falls! Was really pretty but man I was knackered! We were not looking forward to the walk back! We had walked prob about 1k when we struck gold! Two really nice men offered us a lift back to the village! They gave us a little tour and dropped us by the post office! If I’d have had to walk I think my legs would have stopped working!

So day number 2 started well with a free breakfast! Woop woop we ate as much as was possible! We then headed into the village intent on getting the sky rail down the hill to the aboriginal place. The sky rail was broken and Shaun was sad so we headed for the bus stop in hope of a bus! We were in luck! Few as Shaun’s mood had darkened immensely! So we got their and had a really good time watching them and having a go at spear throwing and with the boomerangs!

Thankfully the sky rail was back in action by the time we wanted to leave! AMAZING views! We got off to do a forest walk and then found out we had lost the camera case! Ooops! It was left in the cable car! Don’t worry it came back up so all was not lost!

We ate at the resort and had the wedges! Ummm they were very good!

So we packed up for an early start to the airport!

Caught the bus and arrived in plenty of time! My bag weighs 21.2k!!! No wonder my back hurts! Shaun’s is 19. something, lucky devil!

The flight was a bit dull and the food didn’t come as often as we would have liked!

So we went through customs having the didg taken off to be examined and the tent was whisked away to be cleaned and hoovered!

We arrived at the hostel in Auckland to be told that we were booked into the one in Christchurch! Oooops! Such is life so we walked down the road to a nice place that had space! The first time we planned ahead and booked we muck it up! Won’t be doing that again!

So today what did we do........ Shaun found is microphone and I got a new sim card for NZ. We went food shopping and found some numbers to call about jobs! And we got the forms for the tax number! We are pretty pleased all in all with how the day went!

Now I’m looking forward to a really long sleep as last night a drunk Irish man in our dorm kept coming in and waking me up!

Hope all is well! Lots of love Charlie and Shaun xxxxxxxx