Update: Auckland - Goodbye - Melbourne

In my last post we just came to the North Island, but that seems quite a while ago now. In the meantime we drove via Mont Egmont/ New Plymouth and Hamilton up to Auckland and spend two days there.
Then on Tuesday morning I had to say goodbye to my dad. I had changed my flight back to Australia, as I didn`t wanted to stay on more week "alone" in Auckland and decided to just come one week earlier back to Germany :) Again I was quite sad, when I left and I definitely felt more homesick, when my mum and dad left, then when I left home 7 month ago. But I just spoke with a friend from the east coast, whose family came over for Christmas and she said exactly the same, so it seems to be normal.
Then I finally arrived, 8,5 hours after I left the campground in the morning, in the hostel and don`t know why, but everything just took ages at the Melbourne airport.
And now I am here and I think I really, really like Melbourne, even if I have just arrived two days ago. I slowly get used to be a backpacker again and from tomorrow on I'll try to find a job here. I decided to look for a job for the next 1,5 or 2 weeks and if I don't find one, I' ll just come back home earlier.

Same?

It was my second time in New Zealand, the first time was 11 years ago... Did I changed in the mean time?

Whales and Dolphins

We did whalewahtching in Kaikoura and it was amazing! We saw 6 spermwhales and had beautiful weather and they had even wanted to cancel our tour because of the chance of storm, but fortunately didn't! 

And we saw dolphins on our way back to the North Island on the Cook Strait:

Three weeks full of tuesdays

As my dad normally comes over on tuesdays and is now here for 3 weeks, it's not a week full of saturdays for me like with the Slurp "eine Woche voller SAMStage", its 3 weeks full of tuesdays.

Our Hilleberg( it actually IS waterproof!):

Wenderholm:

Cathedral Cove:

Rotorua:

Huka-Falls:

Cook Strait (with pretty bad weather):

Abel Tasman:

A golddigger near westport:

Pancake Rocks:

Franz Josef Glacier:

Lake Matheson:

Fox Galcier:

Wanaka:

Clay Cliffs:

Mount Cook: 

(The view out of the tent)

(It's not a waterfall, it's an averlanche!)

Lake Pukaki: