Akarora on the Banks Pensinula (~1hr east of ChristChruch) was the first stop after leaving ChristChurch. Now driving in a rental car (nissan bluebird!), after our bad experiences on buses in Australia. New Zealand is full of camp-sites and real easy to show up at any of them to get a tent-site, view from one we were staying in Akarora was class overlooking the lake. Facilities are same as that in most hostels as well. In Akarora took a cruise in harbour, where we saw seals, the odd penguin(white tipped), and lots of Hector Dolphins. Dolphins were class as they were playing with each other around boat.
After Akarora, plan was to drive to Lake Tekapo stopping in Mt Hutt and Methven on route. Only problem was the weather, Mt Hutt was completely covered in cloud, essentially it and Methven are ski towns and isn't much too them during summer. Drove on to our camp-site in Lake Tekapo for night which was much nicer than Akarora. Nicer in that there was less tourists and the lake had this brillian blue (turquoise?) colour to it. All was well, till in middle of ite the heavens opened and the wind picked up as well, just as well we tied down the tent proper anyway!
Yesterday, we drove from Lake Tekapo to Queenstown. Plan was to stay around Mt Cook for nite, but weather outlook was poor, so upped sticks and drove onto Queenstown(handy thing about having car I suppose!) Drive from Mt Cook to Queenstown was really nice surrounded by mountains either-side of road! Camping again in Queenstown for our stay, grand like only ~100m from centre itself.
Booked a hot-air balloon trip for Wed morn, which will be something different, and yep the sky-dive is booked. So far Sinead has put her name down as well, oh god the nerves are at me already!
Kevin
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