The question when we woke up was going to be – is it sunny or cloudy? The winner is – cloudy. Oh well! Should be speccy anyway. We were up and ready for our 9.55am journey having both had a shower. Our boat was dwarfed but all the others and only took 75 people. In fact there were only about 30 so we had plenty of room to move. We sat out on the front deck. It was cold and we got splashed a bit – especially once we left the Sound and were in the Tasman Sea. They had had 100mm of rain on the night of the 15/16th and so there were LOTS of waterfalls to be seen. There are normally only 4 permanent and they were ‘thumping’ even more than usual. (There’s always 2 sides – it was cloud and wettish BUT the waterfalls were even better.) It was a sensational trip which we thoroughly enjoyed. I asked the skipper about the Milford Track and it sounds great – we are keen to do it sometime in the future.
After a bite of lunch – I’m onto my 8th day straight of peanut butter sandwiches for lunch – we headed for Queenstown! The drive south was even better than the day before as the sun had decided to appear again. We stopped into Te Anau for a bit to book in for my jet boat ride tomorrow and then took off again. The next section of road we found a bit dry in comparison to most of the rest so we listened to Len Beddell (the famous Australian roadmaker) speak to a Rotary Club – very funny. Again the drive north alongside Lake Wakatipu was fantastic but this time with loads of sun.
We’d decided on a roadside stop for our O/N this time and went to a place called Twelve Mile Delta Camping Area which was about 12 miles west of Queenstown on the way to Glenorcy. It was a fairly new area set aside but very nice on the lake and after finding an OK spot we walked around and found a nice secluded spot near a little creek. I had to negotiate the van around some tight squeezes to get there but it was a beautiful spot – our best for the trip – and it cost $0!
We had left over Chicken Curry for din dins sitting in the sun beside the creek and then the lights went out at around 10.30pm.
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