It had been a lovely, peaceful night. After brekky we hit the road which was fairly quiet today with only the occasional aggressive tailgater! The weather was gorgeous with a blue sky and wispy clouds. It took us about an hour and a half to get to Te Anau which is situated on Lake Te Anau. It is the largest lake by water volume in Australasia. It was a lovely quiet town on a picturesque lake and such a contrast to brash and commercial Queenstown. We had a walk be...

Amazingly the picnic table was still there when we got up! We did notice, however, that the Italians had managed to snag a picnic table from elsewhere. After brekky we drove into Wanaka to get some petrol. On the way out we stopped at the Mount Iron Scenic Reserve for a walk. Mount Iron is a glacier-carved 240 metre rocky knoll. It was a steady climb to the top with stunning views of the town, lake and mountains unfolding on the way up. At the summit there was a ...

We had a lovely peaceful night and awoke to the fantastic view we had of the lake. The weather was much better today with some splashes of blue amongst the cloud. We decided to stay here another night. After a late brekky we went for a walk along the edge of the lake. The sun was poking through some more now and it was lovely and warm. We followed the path alongside the lake with it's backdrop of mist clad mountains. There were lots of beautiful and colourful flo...

We woke up to rain lashing it down on the camper van's roof. The view outside was of big swathes of mist rolling down from the hills. The bad weather looked set in for the day. We decided to stay in Wanaka but not at this camp site. There were too many annoying people here and Jay's experience of the amenities block hadn't been good. Every time she went in there were always loads of stupid women battling to get a place in front of the mirror so they could slap an...

We awoke to see the mountain view looking all moody and gorgeous with the white fluffy clouds rolling across. It was a cold morning. After brekky we hit the road twisting our way south through some rainforest, lots of farm land and sometimes very close to the Tasman Sea. We stopped along the way at Ship Creek Beach. By now the sun was beating down and it was lovely and warm. The sand here was white and strewn with pebbles and a most beautiful collection of washed...