The first morning at Queenstown we decided to check out the walks round and about. We walked up to the top of Queenstown hill first which was a fairly steep uphill climb but we made it all the way to the top and managed for once to get some great views of queenstown. Not many others doing this walk so maybe they were in the know before about the steepness. Great peacefull walk though due to this. The afternoon wasn't so entertaining though watching our car ta...

We climbed up Key summit in the late afternoon the clouds had predictably come over covering the mountains. At the top after a hard climb we could not see the amazing views promised just a lot of mist. Keeley's boots however did get a good workout. We stayed the night in a small campsite near Milford. In the morning we rose early and made our way to the Sound. The sky for once was clear and blue after heavy rain all night. We stopped en-route at the chasm. We d...

In the morning went for a walk near Te anau on the Kelper Track a nice walk but Keeley did have to negioate another swing bridge. We then set off back towards Invercargill a different route to the one on the way up. We managed to find the house in Greenhills with few problems as there are few houses. We had to come into the house from the back and kids seemed to be everywhere. Jen and Sean staying with Sean's brother Paul and his family meaning five kids. It remi...

On our way to Dunedin we stopped off at Omaru for a chance to see the penguins. It turns out this will be one of many chances. We spied some little, blue, fairy penguins (why they don't decide on one name I don't know) inside their nests. A bit too dark to get good photos thugh. After we went for a nice cliff walk and saw some shags nesting. We then had another chance to walk around in a forest. After the walk we visited the information centre where Aaron was exc...

Arrived at our campsite by lake Tekapo had a great view of the lake and shared a beer with our Kiwi neighbours (think they had had a headstart on us). They offered us some grubs but as they were still moving and looked like pale slugs we declined. The next day went for a walk up Cowans Hill and then down and around the lake, we hardly saw another person. We did bump into a couple who asked us to take their photo as they had got married by the lake the day before...