Ferryman'S Cottage Wanaka

I travelled from Fox Glacier to Wanaka today. A fair drive of over 250kms in which I again saw some jaw-dropping scenery and for the first time in New Zealand (it has happened plenty of times in the UK!) nearly ran out of petrol!

According to the chap who was manning the traffic signal at the roadworks on State Highway 6 this stretch is notorious for people (mainly tourists I guess) running out of petrol. I was pretty relieved when he ...

... of the pile, in an envelope with my name on. We went to get a haircut. The price was ridiculously expensive, even having the numpty hairdresser slot so I passed on the opportunity and Yvette went ahead with the numpty hairdresser, who did a pretty good job. More driving, up to Wanaka via Arrowtown, the sort of place that they put postcards of on the front of fudge boxes. However the fudge shop ...

... theme park... pretty cool... i loved it.. i know Georgie was excited abt visitin her childhood memories and she was so good at solving puzzles unlike me & Mike... awful! needed help!!!! we also did a mini walk up to Lake Diamond... which is abt 15 mins away from Wanaka... we did some jumps... u can see from the photos!! i was totally rubbish at it!!! we then chilled and had lunch.. caught up news... exchanged travels news ...

... das Beduerfnis haben sollte, mir irgendwelche Sachen (wie zB Postkarten) zukommen zu lassen, oder einfach auf nen Kaffe vorbei kommen moechte, meine Adresse is jetzt: 117 Lakeside Rd 9305 Wanaka NZ Aber seht zu, die Post scheint gerade besonders langsam zu sein. Ansonsten is der Nationalpark angeblich ein Paradies fuers Rock Climbing. Das werd ich dann Morgen auch mal gleich ausprobieren...

... girls to talk about fairies continually for 5 hours. They can talk about fairy clothes, fairy magic, fairy pools and fairy names. They offered to make Kevin a fairy and he chose "Sparkles, the Happy Fairy" as his name. Sometimes I worry about what this trip may be doing to him - not four months ago he wanted to be Pepperoni Pizza Fairy or Bluebell Glutton Fairy. At one point we told the girls that it might be time for them to talk about ...

... the same!



Hopefully we weren't far away from the start of the trail, plus the view from the car park wasn't bad!



We didn't have a trail map showing the walk, and there were no ...

... into the valley the clouds disappeared, and with them the rain. HOORAH! (..."and there was much rejoicing"...)

This momentous event even brought a jubilant (if off-key) version of "The sun has got his hat on" from our intrepid ...

... starting my job on Thursday cant wait too much fun. The feeling of my legs walking for miles on end appeared yesterday. We went on a long walk around Wanaka which was really nice however then i managed to get lost for an hour while walking back into town, not sure how though. But managed to make the cinema just in time and it is definitely the best cinema i have been to, it has old sofas in it as seats and an old ...

... aan ligt, ligt een eiland dat "Pigeon Island" genoemd wordt in mijn reisboek, maar waarvan niemand om de een of andere reden mij de ligging kan vertellen, laat staan waarom het zo heen. De meeste mensen lijken niet een te weten waar ik het over heb en het komt ook al niet op landkaarten voor. Het zou daarom mijn nieuwe missie worden om het verleden en heden van Pigeon Island uit te zoeken. Terwijl Erika op een van haar wandelingen was, zou dat mijn tocht door ...

... We can't help feeling that NZ must need a festival for the depths of July and August, when they must be in the thick of the Narnian curse: 'always winter and never Christmas'.

We made the most of the sunny spell with plenty of walking, including lunch below the Rob Roy glacier. This was enlivened by the keas (the alpine parrot) - the signs forbid you to feed them but they circumvent this by ...