Day 24 Queenstown to ParingaTre Well day dawned nice enough with blue skies and sunshine; a bit chilly though but Queenstown is a ski resort in winter so not unexpected. We left the campsite, which has just opened, a bit of a one man concern as he is running and constructing at the same time. All of the main blocks are converted ship containers, different to say the least! We then made our way to the Kiwi Birdlife Park, probably our only chance to see the nat...

Day 23 Te Anau to Queenstown Bloody hell, when it rains here it really rains; hell of a storm last night with thunder and lightning and rain of course, but when I mentioned it to the guy at the service station he just said "oh that was only toying with you, I've seen 6" in an hour"!!! Beautiful double rainbow this morning though; it's not often you can see the complete arc of the rainbow in duplicate. We drove from Te Anau to Queenstown with the weather improvin...

Day 22 Te Anau to Milford Sound Another beautiful sunny day overlooking the lake at Te Anau, but still keeping that chilly wind though; forecasters saying that it will gust NW in places around 130kmh in exposed places, have to keep covered up then! Heading off to Milford Sound today which is about an hours drive from here. It is in Fjord land so should be quite sheltered, fingers crossed. Goodness 1st Feb already; we've already been away 3 weeks. In some way...

Day 21 Dunedin to Te Anau What a night! Wind and rain like you'd never believe - back end of cyclone Wilma so they tell us. The North Island apparently got it during the day and we picked it up later, I didn't sign on for this, I mean it's supposed to be summer! However the morning dawned bright and sunny but still blowing a hooly, and a cold wind too. Drove up to the top of the Otago peninsula from our campsite in Portobello to visit the Royal Albatross Co...

Day 20 - Washdyke to Dunedin Left the campsite at around 9:30 after breakfast. We were the only ones staying onsite and it was right out in the wilds, or so we thought. Turns out it is a local hub as they were setting up for Sunday lunch and were clearly expecting plenty if the number of places they were setting is anything to go by, also there was loads of food, cakes and desserts etc in the chiller. The gift shop they had attached was a bit like Three Sma...