Today is an early start to venture south and across to the Fjordland National Park and to cruise The Milford Sounds. Now this is the No1 thing to do in NZ and we uhmmed and arrghed over whether to take 3 days out of our itinerary to drive south for this '8th wonder of the world, however we were talked into taking 'the best' of the coach excursions from Queenstown - a 4 hour coach trip, 2 1/2 hour cruise and 4 hour return trip! Will it be worth it....After the lat...

Day 22 Today was going to be an amazing day, not just because the sun was shining but because we had a fun packed day planned!!! We were to go by gondola up to the Luge and skyline restaurant and then watch a Haka and finally go stargazing!!! The views over Queenstown were immense and a fabulous backdrop to be kids for a few hours!!! We had planned to do the Luge after seeing pictures on the web months ago and today was the day. It didn't fail to entertain us!!! ...

A glorious morning and after morning coffee in the most splendid surrounds we start the short drive to the main town of Wanaka and to somewhere we have been so excited to explore.....Puzzling world! Another spectacular road journey and We park up in town, a very nice town it is too, we visit the i site and then set off round the bay to photograph "a must photograph scene". We duly found the 'lone tree of Wanaka' and snapped away. Finally off to todays main event ...

Enough now we are outta here!! It looks like the weather will be dry in the morning so an early start sees us head out for the walk around lake Matherson followed by the walk to the Fox Glacier face. Lake Matherson is the most famous and most photographed lake in the world as it is a mirror lake ( see pics all to be revealed) it takes an hour return walk to the glacier face and today we get to 200 meters away. With the must dos done we then head off toward Haast/...

It doesn't look like the weather is going to let up at all today. However another day in the van we may just go a little stir crazy. We head into town find the local tavern and eat some tasty food washed down with the locally brewed beer.......more DVDs and a snuggly warm van!!!