The weather dawned overcast and drizzly so we decided today was a relaxing day in the resort, amongst other things, we sorted out what we were going to take to Stewart island and what we were going to leave in the car - we are flying and only have a 15kg limit. I started the day with a session in the gym before breakfast and booked a massage for 2pm - the latter was so good that I went to sleep! Refreshed from my massage we decided to drive down the hill into Wa...

Up and off to the gym as hopefully it will be my last experience exercising with a large plaster club on my hand. At 1040 we left the apartment to go to the health centre; we left prepared for a day out, hopefully shopping and a walk along the shore path to one of the bays would follow my appointment. Almost on the dot of 1100 ( my appointment time) I was collected by the nurse who took me to a small A& E type area where she snipped my plaster off. What a r...

We awoke to sunshine and blue skies which bode well for the rest of the day. After breakfast our plan was to go to Albert Town and walk the Newcastle track along the Clutha River - an undulating 12km one way track - so by the time we finished we had completed 24kms or 15 miles. The scenery was beautiful - a backdrop of snow capped mountains against a blue sky, trees in full leaf and the clear glacial blue of the flowing river. We passed farmland with a large her...

At 5.30 it was dry but that didn't last long before the forecast rain started to fall and continued as such until about 1230. No morning walk so I went to the gym before breakfast, we had a mid morning coffee at the excellent olde worlde cafe, Florence's, opposite the resort and late morning we made a family decision to go and do our big shop for the week at New World......braving the weather and the Xmas shoppers.....that said although there were lots of shoppe...

Today we decided to tackle the Rob Roy Glacier Track described as 10km - medium - 3-4hours round trip. First we had to drive through Wanaka and out to Raspberry Creek car park in the Mount Aspiring National Park. The journey took approximately an hour, half of which was on an unsealed road. On the plus side it was picturesque as we drove along the bottom of a wide u- shaped glacial valley. The fertile soil made good pasture for livestock farming - sheep, cattle a...