Staying near to Milford gave us the perfect opportunity to start out early and spend the day doing a few walks along the road back. Our first was only a twenty minute round walk from the car but it did involve a swing bridge which succeeded in scaring me but it was worth it for the waterfall the other end! The main walk of the day was approximately three hours to Key Summit, after one and half hours walking uphill our thoughts were "it better be worth it&q...

Today we picked up our rental car and headed off for our four days in a tent! We took the easy two hour drive out to Te Anau where we were going to spend our first two nights. We thought we were going to be doing this on the cheap but with a tent site costing £20 a night plus the cost of the rentals we were wrong! An expensive way to spend the night on the floor but so worth it! The tent itself wasn't quite up to my standards, 0.85m at its highest point and ju...