Russ and I left Becky and Rob and Tom to lie in whilst Russ and I walked to Mount Iron and walked the short 45 mins to the summit. A popular walk with locals and tourists. A beautiful day with beautiful views 360 when reaching the summit. Views of both Lake Wanaka and Hawea and the surrounding mountains. We returned to find the kids up and about around noon with some leaflets on what to do. We decided as now 1300 to do a boat cruise to one of the 4 islands you ...

Alarm woke us at 05:45, checking the mountains I held no hope we would be flying and the answer was no, flight cancelled again. Tears, all gutted. So cars packed all,ready for the road we have an early start. We popped back for crumpets and coffee then set off about 0740 to Wanaka. The lady at the motel got up,specially to see if we wanted our keys back as we did ask if could have the rooms post check out on our return from Glacier but it was a no. So we had to ...