Te Anau Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

We made the long drive from Glenorchy down south to Te Anau in Fiordland and were once again really lucky with the weather. Although very cold, we had loads of sun. Considering that Fiordland is usually very wet and it was the winter - someone was looking down kindly on us.

Te Anau gave us the base to explore Doubtful Sound, which is appr...

We wake up to the sound of significant rain which continues, so we go back into Invercargill. I attempt to send a video greeting to the practice for the Christmas Party but the miserable blighters at Hotmail will only let me send a 10MB attachment rather than the 25MB needed. I console myself with a good cup of coffee and a slice of carrot cake....

Wow, so far day three has taken forever, much longer than we expected. We made it to Te Anau at about 730pm and started out of Dunedin at about 10am. Te Anau is a very small town and is even smaller during the winter. It is too far away from any sort of city for me, but it is very scenic...if you can get past the fog. There is a huge lake in Te ...

Went south to where Porpoise & Curio Bay practically join. Steep rocks with waves crashing at least 30 to 40 feet in the air. On the Curio Bay side we saw fossilized logs embedded in the rock that were billions of years old. Makes you feel pretty small. Went around the south end of the South Island thru Invercargill. Stopped and had lunch th...

Well, we had to cancel our 4 day trek. I woke up very ill, with a puking, needle in the eye, wish-I-were-dead, migraine. Because the track is so regulated, you must leave on the date and time that you booked. Unfortunately, I could not recover that quickly and we had to make the very painful decision to cancel the whole trek. It was not a pleasa...

This scenic drive brought us back to Te Anau where we spent a further two night in a lovely room with balcony overlooking the lake. The next day we woke to pouring rain, the first heavy wet stuff for three weeks! However, luck again on our side, by the afternoon it had dried for our short trip across the lake to the Te Anau Glowworm Caves. We we...

Chill out. Don't you read the end of my entries? I said I wouldn't be updating as much as nothing was happening. Now for you less paranoid readers, friends, family, associates, businessmen, politicians, and super heroes: Hello. I've been working a lot this past week. Roughly the whole first week of October I was really sick. That week was not fu...

Te Anau and the Glow-worn caves Not much worth seeing in Invercargill so we headed north to Te Anau. This place is situated by the South Island's biggest lake (also called Te Anau) surrounded by even more steep and alpine mountains. We caught a boat across the lake to the Glow-worm caves where we were taken in a kind of boat inside the caves. Su...