Stayed at a fab motel but had to leave early in the morning for the long drive across the whole of the South Island - from Hamner to Queenstown, via the Franz Josef glacier on the far north east coast.
What a drive! It's a cliche but true, that around almost every corner was a 'wow' moment as the landscape became more and more dramatic - mountains, snow, lakes, awesome coastlines - all amazing.. finally got to Queenstown after a 10 hour drive and lurched into our motel.
Exhausted, but then woke up this morning to the stunning village/ski resort - so so glad we've got 4 days here - surf/ski shops galore, gigantic lake, and again, snow-capped mountains surrounding the whole valley.
However, our scheduled sky dive this morning had to be postponed till Saturday at 8:30am as there was too much snow at the holding zone! But the forecast for Sat is even worse so fingers crossed - we are now in the hands of the weather fates...
So, to cheer ourselves up, we booked ourselves onto a tour of the fabulous sounding 'Doubtful Sounds' - apparently named by Captain Cook as he was indeed 'doubtful' that his ship would make it to land around that coastline - we'll just be happy to see a penguin...
That was this morning and the afternoon was spent playing up the top of one of the mountains here - got a gondola up to the top and drove a luge down! Fantastic fun!
6am start tomorrow - yay!
1 comment:
Well hello!!
I am beginning to run out of superlatives to describe these vids & photos.They just keep getting better and better. N.Z looks like my type of place ---cold but sunny.
Sorry about my text last night but you know I am a BIT freaked out over your sky dive!!! Sorry but I really hope it snows & snows so the whole thing gets cancelled!
On that note I'll leave you. Take care.
love mum & dad F
P.S. post has just delivered your 3rd post card from Cairns (looks fab)
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