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Meet Jhana Courtney rent a car varna who are pictured left.  They are our latest lucky friends who got to take Coco, our Social Cabana away for a free adventure around the South Island of New Zealand.  After reading their blog and seeing all their photos I think it is safe to say that they had an AMAZING time!  If you're keen to check out more photos from their trip you can do so here .  Jealous?  Then apply to take Coco away on an adventure yourself.  She is FREE!  Check out www.jucy4free.co.nz Love, Lucy xx
Courtney and I were SO excited to finally be in New Zealand! Our semester at uni was finally finished and this was the perfect trip to end it.  We got picked up at the Christchurch airport in the morning and got settled into Coco at Jucy Rentals. We were especially stoked because Coco was SO much nicer than any other campa we had been in before. It was such a treat! Our trip wasn't very articulately rent a car varna planned out like some people's vacations are, but we had a few places in mind that we wanted to visit in our seven days time on the South Island. We knew we had a long drive ahead of us so on Saturday, rent a car varna we drove all the way to Mt. Cook and spent the night at the bottom of the summit at the DOC camping ground.
We went to sleep on Saturday at 9pm after eating our subway sandwiches and watching Austin Powers rent a car varna Goldmember and woke up at like 2:45 am this morning to rain and very violent windstorms. I was pretty scared we were going to get blown away because rent a car varna our campa was rocking back and forth with each strong gust of wind. The really strong gusts of wind would come periodically and weren t super strong all the time but it was pretty persistent. It was very loud and it was hard to sleep. I noticed it was pretty light outside even at three o clock in the morning! The day before, we could see the glacier and the mountains but today they were covered in the clouds. We had to get used to the sun setting at around 5:00 pm, which makes it a little more difficult to get stuff done during the daytime. We realised we really had to plan out our activities because we didn t have much time during the day. The sun doesn t rise till about 7:30 am or 7:45am. That s about 12 or 13 hours of darkness each day!!
We booked a Tasman Glacier tour today and we were lucky because this tour was supposed to be the last one of the year! The weather was also absolutely amazing, because the skies were blue and it was sunny! At first I thought I was going to need six layers of clothes, but I ended up only needing a couple because it was so sunny! We got to see heaps of icebergs and were able to taste them too!
Our tour ended in the afternoon and we left Mt.Cook to dive to Queenstown. The scenery on the drive south was very picturesque and I wanted to take pictures every five seconds! It took all afternoon to drive to Queenstown rent a car varna and we arrived there at around dinnertime. It was perfect rent a car varna because Courtney and I were dying to try these famous "Fergburgers" we kept hearing about. rent a car varna We had absolutely no idea what they were, but we knew we had to try them. We checked into the Queenstown Campervan Park and walked down to Fergburgers. We both ordered the original Fergburger and also got onion rings with the aioli sauce! Now we knew what this hype was all about because they really were freaking amazing!  We imagined how great if Fergburger rent a car varna were in our hometowns, but then realized that we would probably get super fat because we would eat them ALL the time.
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We woke up early and drove us from Lake Gunn to Milford. We made minestrone soup and cappuccino for brekkie. While I was in the back cooking, these little flies called sandflies kept biting me! We were bummed because it was raining and it was cold at the sound. The visibility was poor at the sound (which is really a fiord). We were 25 min before the next Jucy cruise, rent a car varna so we sprinted to the harbour centre!  We made it just in time and we got a great deal on JUCY Cruize ! The trip was an hour and a half total an it was insane!! We saw a billion waterfalls streaming down the mountains!  We were two of only 6 people on the whole cruise so it felt like a private cruise ship! We saw this huge waterfall of raaaging water! It was awe amazing to see all of it at once. Courtney and I decided to tough it out and face the rain at the front of the cruise ship. It was crazy windy and her five dollar poncho ripped from the crazy winds. There was also the narrowest part of the fiord and they said winds can reach 160 mph there and it was sooooo windy we had to hide under the railing so we wouldn t blow away! We also saw juvenile male seals lying on rocks! We got up to them reeeal close and it was so cool! We also passed rent a car varna by this huge waterfall and we put ourselves rent a car varna at the closest part so we could get sprayed!! Good thing I had a waterproof camera! The water in the fiord was the darkest water I have ever seen. Our feet were wet from being out in the rain half the time. We left Milford Sound at around 1:30 pm. Our drive back was amaaaazing! rent a car varna So many cascading waterfalls finding their own pathways down the mountain. We drove to Te Anau and went to the Laundromat to dry our soaked clothes. We went to the sport fishing and hunting store and Courtney got wool socks and a real poncho that also could be a tent. We went grocery shopping and got sausages lettuce eggs and snacks for dinner and filled up with gas.
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After getting back into Queenstown we sat in the car and Courtney rent a car varna took a nap while I made eggs for breakfast. We made it to the 11am conservatory show at the Kiwi Birdlife Park. We took a million pictures of the kiwis! They are nocturnal so the kiwi house was really dark! There are several species of kiwis, and some species only have 300 left in the world. We paid $29.90 USD for a $38 NZ admission ticket and were astounded at the great exchange rate!  All of a sudden shopping sounded reaaaally good to us! After the kiwi park, we shopped more and got chai lattes at Starbucks. I got a belt, and some other goodies. We went to the A.J. Hackett place at around 3:30 pm and decided rent a car varna what crazy adventure rent a car varna we wanted to do. There were a lot to choose from and the Nevis Swing sounded awesome since it was the highest/biggest in the world, so we chose that. We got to the car, did some Internet stuff, Skyped our friends Felix and Maile from back in Sydney, and Courtney took another nap. They told us about the storm and bad weather in back in Sydney and made us happy we weren't there. After our little break we went to the Minus Five Degree Ice Bar for some super cool drinks. For dinner we had Indian and then drove to our next camp for the night.
We woke up this morning at a DOC just outside of Queenstown however being that we spent all our cash we had to charge the $14 fee to a card (the woman was not a pleasant person and tried to fine us … Note: always make sure you have cash for these people).
After that little ordeal we rushed back to Queenstown to make our 8:50am appointment for the Nevis Swing! We parked across from the Kiwi Birdlife Park and literally ran to the A.J. Hackett 'h