Attempted a walk round part of this lake - only part as its about 80km long, the largest body of water in the South IsIand. Visited a bird sanctuary on the way, saw four kakas and three takahe, both rare types of indigenous bird. And both quite weird! Windy day...those of you who know me well will appreciate how unpleased that made me...so we turned round and had a beer on the terrace instead!

Arrived in drizzle after rain and wind intermittently on our 400km journey here. This is another truly beautiful place - a huge lake surrounded by mountains, some of which still have snow on their peaks. Greeted by a full double rainbow...this is my clearest photo of it!

First stop on our journey across to Te Anau. These are the Moeraki Boulders - completely round, huge rocks scattered all along the beach. More bizarre!

Today we explored this weird and quirky little town, population about the equivalent of Knaphill and Brookwood, or King's Norton. It was the centre of the meat-packing industry in the mid 19th century, and those Victorians were never shy about building good, in-your-face neoclassical banks and civic monuments...!

We went to overlook this beach to see rare yellow-eyed penguins returning to their nests. There are only 4000 left in the world, so the local council closes this beach at 3pm to protect them, and you view from the cliff above. There were 8 or 9 fur seals lounging about, fighting, being cute when we arrived...that's the brown blobs in this stunning photo! Then excitingly one - just one! - penguin came running up the beach...yes, I missed him...but Andy got a blurr...