South Island Adventure, P. I

So far the south island has been awesome. We flew into Christchurch (ChCh), found a bunch of cool nature stuff and drove around. The next day we headed to Akaroa, a quaint waterside town, with super hilly driving that killed the brake pads on the car. After some interesting navigating to the airport, we collected the rest of the travel crew (there are six of us) and spent another night in ChCh. Next stop was Greymouth, where we stayed at a luxury (but budget!) hostel and ventured out to see the pancake rocks and a very dark cavern. Yesterday we walked ('hiked', but hardly) on Franz Josef glacier and drove another three hours to Wanaka. The six of us are getting along great, I couldn't ask for a nicer group of people to hang out with! Only down side is I'm a bit sick and consequently cough through the night. Pictures and a much more elaborate, entertaining description in a couple of weeks.