made it to the South Island

Since leaving Auckland on Wednesday, in addition to the black water rafting, I've done the Hokey Pokey in Maori, gone white water rafting (including going over a 7 metre waterfall), gone in hot mineral springs at the edge of a lake, seen a 'geothermal wonderland', seen a geyer made to erupt on schedule for the tourists by putting pieces of soap inside, watched some bungy jumping, and drove past 'Mt. Doom', and done a 3 hour ferry crossing.


I'm in Picton now, on the South Island and tomorrow I meet the bus for Stray Travel (another hop-on, hop-off backpacker bus) to start my tour of the South Island.