Wellington

Day 1: Early morning pick up for the bus and then ferry onto the north island heading towards New Zealand's capital city - Wellington. Our driver was a cool guy called Toddy. Not quite as crazy as Dillon had been but still full of enthusiasm and energy, which does a good job of waking everyone up on the early bus journeys. My early impressions of the Kiwi drivers were good.

On our way to the ferry terminal, Toddy pulled the bus over so we could get a glimpse of a huge Seal colony, chilling out on the rocks just offshore. After all getting some pictures, it was back on the bus to continue the scenic drive along the east coast towards the ferry terminal at Picton.

The views were just as good as we set off through the Marlborough Sounds to embark on the 3-hour journey over to the north island. We arrived mid-afternoon and then just had a short drive over to our accommodation in Wellington.

The canadian girls had checked into the same hostel so the 4 of us headed into Wellington for the evening to have a look around and go to the cinema to see ''21 Jump Street''. Pretty funny and worth and look if you haven't seen it.