Reluctantly we left the lake and continued south on SH6 intending to lunch at Bluff. After a good deal of meandering about we hit Invercargill Countdown at about 1pm. Inevitable photo of Bluff. Of course we had to have our oysters and stopped at a little shack outside town. And for today there’s not much […]
A rest day at Lake Kingston Campground on SH6 south of Queenstown. We spent the day reading, snoozing and sunbathing. This little park has been planted with many different types of tree. One of the trees is an apple and with last night’s gale several came down thanks to Hania we had stewed apple with […]
We headed South again towards Queenstown but not before seeing this tree Hania insists is famous – world famous in Wanaka I guess. After the tree we took the Crown Range road out past Cardrona and the bra fence. We survived the hairy descent into valley and headed to Arrowtown. It was crowded by the […]
I woke up in the van this morning and opened the curtain to see: Clear skies and a great day in view. With some reluctance we packed up and headed towards Cromwell via Twizel once again. Just before Omarama we turned off to view the Clay Cliffs. Not sure why they have that name as […]
We are certainly catching up on our sleep, an afternoon nap and about 10 hours at night. Must be the fresh air. Walked a brisk 5K this morning and 2K of that was uphill. Returned to find Hania being good and exercising – physio please note. For lunch we took a trip to Twizel and […]
Broke camp today amid a steady drizzle. Toddled around the supermarket for a few necessities like cookies and a step so Hania could get in and out of the van. These items are not necessarily related. Then to McKenzie country via Fairlie and Tekapo. Few people around the Church of the Good Shepherd just like […]
Another warm day in the South Island and we spent the morning wandering around Geraldine looking at the houses and the shops. There is a pleasant walk by the river and a nice pub in the centre of town called the village in. Nice ambience but the food not all that good. When a restaurant […]
I had a quick morning walk around Picton and then packed up and we drove South to Blenheim, got lost twice around there and eventually found the road to Christchurch – town could do with better signage IMO. On the way south we couldn’t resist the big sign adverstising these babies. The rest of the […]
Today I looked up the exact date we returned from the last trip an was surprised to find it was August 23rd. When someone asked me today when we were last here I said November. Not sure what that signifies, the passage of time speeding up maybe. Anyway the Littel Motel was dead quiet and […]