Now our itinerary is a bit skewed and we have a day up our sleeve. What to do? Bill wants to fish and I am happy to chill (literally) somewhere before Westport. It had been raining solidly with a big weather system coming from New Caledonia. We look on the map and see a small place, Moana, on Lake Brunner. Good fishing it says, so that's a go. Up early to get a good start to Greymouth and then half an hour inland to Moana.The morning was wet, wet, ...

Our flexible itinerary showed Haast as our next overnighter. Bill wanted to get some fishing in and Alan, our man on Lake Wanaka suggested staying at Paringa. "About half an hour north of Haast. My mates look after the camping ground there. They'll look after you and the fishing is good" he said. Awesome! So Paringa it is.A pretty good morning with sun and mostly blue skies. We muck about a bit, trying to fill and then buy a small gas bottle for the...

So beautiful here we decided to stay an extra day so we could drive up to Glenorchy and take advantage of the weather. And what a beautiful drive it was. With Lake Wakatipu on one side, hugged by mountains to the shore and hills and mountains hugging the road to our right.  All the while we are driving toward the head of Lake Wakatipu and the myriad of snow capped mountainsGary, a nice quick blog just for you! hahaha.   It was a lovely, leisurely day before...

We hired a car in Queenstown as we wanted to drive the Crown Range to Wanaka.   Our hirecontract clearly states two roads the van must not go.   One is Skippers Canyon and the other the Crown Range. We left around 8:15am whilst Queenstown was swathed in candy floss like mist, the frost was heavy on the paddocks, the tree tops and the poor old sheep were whiter than usual with a thick blanket of ice on their backs.   They weren’t moving a lot, not fro...

I'm sure I've said how cold it is overnight! More than bloody cold last night! -2 degrees. Now that's just silly, but we don't care because the day loomed cloudless and sunny with a 'picture post-card' blue sky.Ok? Ready for our next adventure, we are picked by mini bus and off into Skippers Canyon. The scenery is jaw-dropping! The narrow single lane width, two way road with massive, no barrier fenced, drops into infinity! Classic ...