Blimey, I've finaly caught up on the blog!
We were expecting rain today, never got any, in fact turned out to be a beautiful day for the drive down from Queenstown to Invercargill on the Southern Scenic route. This involved a slight detour as the drive straight down to Invercargill is just shy of 200KM, but taking a detour across to Te Anau means you can track down the edge of the SOuthern Alps but clock up a further 100KM. Well worth it though, another memorable drive along a virtually deserted road.
Stopped off In Te Anau for lunch and watched the toursist buses on route to Milford Sound disgorge their cargo for photo opportunities at the lake and then back on again 10 minutes later. I'm glad we're travellling independently, I couldn't face being herded around like sheep!!! Of course we're not as independent as the camper van crew but Deb does expect a few little luxuries (I'd be happy with a tent!) ;o)
Pulled into Invercargill mid-afternoon and settled straight into the motel. Popped out to the local supermarket to get some groceries and low and behold they didn't sell alcohol! I'm not sure whether it's unique to this town or not, whether there is a drinking problem or something, but in the end to get Deb a bottle of wine meant tracking down a licquor store. She did look like an alcoholic walking
out with her bottled wrapped in a brown paper bag though ;o)))
Fingers crossed for another nice day as we are taking the short ferry ride over to Stewart Island tomorrow, looks like it might be a little breezy though ;op I'll let you lnow how we get on later...
We were expecting rain today, never got any, in fact turned out to be a beautiful day for the drive down from Queenstown to Invercargill on the Southern Scenic route. This involved a slight detour as the drive straight down to Invercargill is just shy of 200KM, but taking a detour across to Te Anau means you can track down the edge of the SOuthern Alps but clock up a further 100KM. Well worth it though, another memorable drive along a virtually deserted road.
Stopped off In Te Anau for lunch and watched the toursist buses on route to Milford Sound disgorge their cargo for photo opportunities at the lake and then back on again 10 minutes later. I'm glad we're travellling independently, I couldn't face being herded around like sheep!!! Of course we're not as independent as the camper van crew but Deb does expect a few little luxuries (I'd be happy with a tent!) ;o)
Pulled into Invercargill mid-afternoon and settled straight into the motel. Popped out to the local supermarket to get some groceries and low and behold they didn't sell alcohol! I'm not sure whether it's unique to this town or not, whether there is a drinking problem or something, but in the end to get Deb a bottle of wine meant tracking down a licquor store. She did look like an alcoholic walking
out with her bottled wrapped in a brown paper bag though ;o)))
Fingers crossed for another nice day as we are taking the short ferry ride over to Stewart Island tomorrow, looks like it might be a little breezy though ;op I'll let you lnow how we get on later...
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