Saturday, 25 October 2025 This morning’s weather was much clearer than we have experienced for the last two days. We packed the car and then dropped the key back at the main building before driving to The Hermitage to find the statue of Sir Edmund Hillary AND, we hoped, to take a clear photo of […]
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Friday, 24 October 2025 Thank goodness we woke to weather that was a bit of an improvement on yesterday. We had actual sunshine outside one side of our cabin/room with cloud out the other. At least it was only cloud, it wasn’t raining. Yay! After breakfast we drove over to the DOC Camping Ground, which
Thursday, 22 October 2025 It was a wet and windy night and there was no improvement by this morning. In fact, it was much worse, with some thunder and lightning thrown into the mix. At check-in yesterday we learnt that breakfast is included here, so at 8.30am we headed down to the reception lobby/breakfast room.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2025 When we checked out this morning, I took the key and the plastic display holder I had broken down to reception. There was no-one on reception, so I picked up the phone as per the instructions. The phone rang and rang and rang before eventually being picked up by someone (David
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Tuesday, 21 October 2025 When we went into our bathroom this morning, we discovered that there are mountains out the back of our motel room. The cloud was obscuring them yesterday when we arrived, ha, ha. The weather was actually looking quite promising, so we made a plan that we would eat breakfast and then
Monday, 20 October 2025 Yuck, yuck, yuck, the weather was bad yesterday, but it is even worse today. With 51 millimeters of rain forecast for today, it’s going to be a miserable one! It was a bit difficult to get motivated to pack up to move on but, it had to be done. With no
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Sunday, 19 October 2025 A couple of days ago the forecast was promising us a perfect day for this morning’s Dart River Jet Boating experience. Well, that was a couple of days ago. How things change, especially the weather!! Today dawned cloudy and wet, with fresh snow on the mountains surrounding Queenstown. Oh well, what
Saturday, 18 October 2025 The weather forecast for today was cold and wet, so we decided that we had no need to be up early. There was also an activity here in Queenstown that we were unable to do, because the hire car company said – No – so that left us with time to
Friday, 17 October 2025 A repositioning day today, travelling from Te Anau to Queenstown, but first we made a quick visit to the Te Anau Bird Sanctuary. This is a bird sanctuary concentrating on care and rehabilitation for injured birds and captive breeding programs for rare and endangered species so it is definitely NOT a
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Thursday, 16 October 2025 Another day, another sound. This morning we were off at 8.00am, to drive to the end of the Milford Road (State Highway 94) on the shores of Milford Sound. It was another gloomy morning so I had my waterproof overpants on again, aiming to keep warm and dry rather than look