This final post then...a bit of a summary...
Our Australia and New Zealand jaunt consisted of:
- 40 nights
- 3 countries
- 7 cities
- 29,151 miles
- Sheffield to London 150
- London to Hong Kong - 5991
- Hong Kong to Sydney - 4568
- Sydney to Katoomba and return - 108
- Sydney to Cairns - 1216
- Cairns to Great Barrier Reef and return - 120
- Cairns to Melbourne 1440
- Melbourne to Philip Island and return - 80
- Melbourne to Christchurch - 1550
- Around the South Island - 1200
- Christchurch to Wellington - 255
- North island - 600
- Auckland to Hong Kong - 5782
- Hong Kong to London - 5991
- London to Sheffield - 150
- 7 flights
- 3 train journeys
- 18 different methods of transport
- plane
- train
- car
- camper-van
- tram
- bus
- taxi
- coach
- ferry
- helicopter
- cable car
- luge
- chairlift
- funicular
- jet boat
- catamaran
- escalator
- sampan
- 7 hotels
- 1 guest house
- 4 motels
- 7 campsites
- 9 boat trips
- 20 types of animal in the wild
- penguins
- seals
- sea lions
- koalas
- Hector's dolphins
- spoonbills
- parrots
- parakeets
- black kites
- buzzards
- cormorants
- wallabies
- stoats
- alpacas
- deer
- terrapins
- bats
- kea
- various exotic fish!
- coral
- and we lost count of how many lakes and rivers!
as for the much dreaded deadly creatures...
- 0 snakes
- 0 crocodiles
- 0 sharks
- no deadly spiders (don't think so anyway)
- lots of jelly fish, not sure if they were deadly or not!
What a relief!
Thank you so much for taking an interest and following our adventure, maybe we'll have another some time soon, who knows?
Dave and Sue x
