The sun was shining in the morning for our boat trip at Milford Sound and saw dolphins, seals and beautiful views, after coach trip along the only road in, with stunning scenery back to Queenstown. With the car loaded we drove to Wanaka very nice place on a lake of the same name and after a stroll, early tea then bed. Next day we drove to the West coast, lovely views again (it's a beautiful country) had a look at Fox and Franz Josef glaciers, we thought Mount Coo...

This was hard. We woke 06:15 to thunder, lightning & heavy rain, only to be told it would get worse, made lunch and ate breakfast. Left 07:30 with waterproof coats and covers on our backpacks which had all our clothes etc for the trek in (it slowed down to a steady downpour) 7.5 miles later a quick hot drink and snacks, on our way here some of the paths were under water up to our knees. We then reached Mackay Falls not as high as Sutherland but difficult to ...

After traveling to Te Anau from Queenstown we had lunch, then boarded the launch to the jetty at the start of our trek. After afternoon tea (very English) we had a nature walk to explain the surrounding countryside, a walk of about 1 mile, for dinner I had Venison and Ga had Salmon (roughing it or what). 29th up early to make our sandwiches for lunch and it was chucking it down, after a couple of miles we enter the wetlands ha ha with ancient Beech Forests (it's ...