Milford Sound Boat Cruse Off to Milford sound first thing this-morning, leaving at 7:45am for the 120km drive - on the way out (about 10 minutes in) they have a sign noting there are no petrol stations from that point on (would be far more useful at the edge of town, where you could get petrol still - as we would have missed our boat if we were to turn around by this point…) - so we just kept going with the gauge on half (but not for long). The drive o...

Driving to Te Anau Quickly packed &headed off to Te Anau- which apparently takes 2:45 minutes according to the maps. While it did take longer than it would initially appear due to the VERY windy roads, it only took 2 hours. We passed a LOT of sheep on the way, some paddocks have heaps, to the point where it looks like a block of sheep almost. Drive was nice, quite drizzly, but apparently this part of the country experiences rain 200 days of the year - an...

Jet Boat (Luke) Olsen Hot Pools Massage (Rachel) Canyon Swing (Luke) Bit of a sleep in this-morning, 8:30 wake up. Drove into town to get lift to jet boating, Shotover Canyon (Luke) & so Rachel could find a sports massage place. The jet boating operations work like clockwork with hundreds of people coming though, they have an amazingly smooth process for getting everyone through while ensuring an amazing experience. As promised they g...

Skiing Back up to the Remarkables today - drive up again... This is the freakiest drive, especially with a speed limit of 50 (while there's no way it would be safe, the poor little car had the accelerator flat to the floor and still couldn't get much past 40 on the "straits"). There was 12cm fresh snow overnight, while making the driving up harder, made the experience while on the maintain amazing. For a few hours of the day, the mountain was cove...

Skiing To add to the jet lag - daylight savings commenced in NZ today! So up early, breakfast of NZ bread & honey (the NZ honey is different & better than Australia), then off up the remarkable to ski, we were going to catch the bus up - but the hotel reception advised that we needed to book in the day before (did try but they had closed) so we drove! WOW what a freeky drive (especially in a small Toyota - smaller than Corolla). 50Kmph is the legal s...