Firstly, woe is us, skydiving has been postponed AGAIN until tomorrow morning - Sun 9:30 - it's our last possible chance as we're driving back up to Christchurch tomorrow so if we get to do it, we'll be going straight from the drop - fingers crossed again!
Yesterday was a day trip to Doubtful Sounds - and was another fabulous day. Long drive in the morning to get to Manapouri where we got on board the first of 2 huge boats for that day. Designed for 300 people - there were 20 of us! Felt like we had our own boat for the day!!
At the end of the lake is some hydro-power station that everyone seems really proud of so we took a few pics of it but still not sure how it works..
Then coach through the Wilmott Pass down to the mouth of the actual Sounds. Another boat up and around the Sounds and then right up to the Tasman sea - we got to rocks that Cook got to from the other side and then turned around - pretty awesome!
The best bit has to be the wildlife (again) - we were hoping for dolphins and penguins - and saw both! The dolphins, totally wild, swam past about 40ft away and the main dad dolphin came to the boat to check it out - lots of sharp intakes of breaths...
The penguins were of the Little Blue species which are apparently the rarest penguins in the world - (think it's because they're only found in Doubtful?) Anyway, brilliant to catch sight of them.
PLEASE let there be no snow or cloud tomorrow morning...
2 comments:
Hi you two, even more amazing pictures, shame about the skydive, perhaps the weather will not be as bad tomorrow, Do you know you are following in the footsteps of one of your ancesters, Captain Cook is something to do with dads mums family.We are at Pams yesterday we went to Southwold the weather was fab, we had a paddle in the sea and a lovely walk along all the beach huts, Take care love me dad and auntie Pam xxxxxxxxx
awww the scenery looks absolutley fabulous!!!!!!! Glad your both having a great time! :-D take care!
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