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Thursday 12th June
We both said our farewells from work yesterday so back to being unemployed and on the open road. The hardest part is condensing all our belonging and life we have setup here into 2 backpacks. It's not like at home where you have leave everything with your parents. Everything has to be sold or thrown away that doesn't fit in.
Anyway that can wait as before we leave New Zealand we wanted to do one more mini road trip.
We hired a Spaceship car, one of those mini caravan type vehicles that is shrunk to fit into the back of a car. We picked this up as soon as the rental place opened as we had a long drive ahead of us. Stevie brought me an action cam for my birthday. So we decided to use it's windscreen mount to record our trip.
First stop Queenstown. Now I know we have been here before many times but we wanted our last Ferg Burger before we left.
The drive was pretty uneventful, as we took the route down past Timaru and the headed in land. Missing out the beautiful Lake Takepo. We reached Queenstown round 3.30pm. Stevie and I decided to have a little browse around the shops as we wanted to take something home from New Zealand. We couldn't find anything that we both liked so headed for food. We got the world famous Ferg Burger and a cheeky Lamb shank pie from the Ferg baker before we headed further south.
Seeing Lake Wakatipu from the other side of Queenstown was stunning. The lake is so beautiful. We got up close to the Remarkables. We headed around the Livingstone mountain range on route 94 to Te Anau.
Te Anau is only a few miles from Queenstown but took 2 hours to get to as we had to drive around the mountains. We stopped off before we left Te Anau as it is the last place to feel up with petrol before you enter the Sounds.
It took us another 2 hours down a gravel road before we got to the Lodge. On our approach to the Sound we had to take a tunnel through the mountains. It was an old tunnel with raw jagged rocked walls. The total length was about 1.3km long.
When we appeared on the other side of the tunnel the night was still and stars glisten like diamonds, the mountains created mammoth black silhouette high into the stars. It was calm, eerie, intimidating scene. It was awesome.
We arrive late to our camp site. Pretty much parked up and headed to bed.
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