I've just returned from a couple of weeks driving around the south island of NZ and the highlight has to have been a surprise viewing of the aurora from Lake Tekapo.
I say surprise because it was cloudy most of the trip, plus the days are so long, plus the moon was only 2 days past full, and as a result of all this I really hadn't planned on traveling anywhere specifically to catch the aurora.
Anyway we were at Lake Tekapo and all day my "Aurora Buddy" app had been telling me the kp-index was around 6 so, with a mostly clear sky, I rushed out when the sky was almost dark (at about 10pm!) and started shooting.
It lasted a bit over an hour starting off with pinkish streaks that were just visible, then changing to quite bright pink/purple streaks and blobs and then, towards the end, changed to faint green swirly/streaky things.
I have some timelapse stuff which I'll post when I have some time but here are some stills.
More, bigger and better quality ones on my blog here:
http://hughsblog.wordpress.com/2014/...ora-australis/
EDIT: short timelapse here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA5LxjDG3Yg (make sure you choose HD)