Te Anau YHA

HI Again, A quick catch up with the pod as we weave our way up/down/across the south of the South Island. This entry covers Doubtful Sound from Te Anau, Dunedin (what a strange place)/and Invercargill(even stranger) Stewart Island (Av wants to live there)!!!! Have now covered hundeds of miles and seen so many beautiful locations. Stayed in fab YHAs - particularly Te Anau. However, Invercargill was on a main street and most of the NZ hot rod youth drivers seemed to only come out at night and r...

After seeing Milford Sound we drove up to a small place called Te Anua. We got in just in time to book a room in the local YHA and get onto a gloworm tour. The tour took us out across te anua lake and into a visitor centre where we were herded into a cave and eventually onto a boat. All went quite as we drifted along looking at the roof of the cave. nice. After that we decided to get some sleep. 5 in the morning I was woken by the feeling that someone was shaking our bed. I sat up quite confu...

It's a long drive from Queenstown to Milford Sound. The scenery to The Sound is amazing, particularly from Te Anau..so there are lots of stops along the way to take photos. Sue and Harry the Aussie couple we hung out with in Queenstown were just getting off a Catamaran when we arrived so we had a chat and organised to meet for a glass of vino later that evening. We got on the 1.15pm boat and did a trip around The Sound and out to the Tasman Sea. The boat turns around and the coast is exactly ...

I made it to the airport with plenty of time and sat reading a Queenstown brochure getting really excited that I would be there in just over an hour - horray!!!
Unfortunately things didnt work out that way. Just as we were preparing to land in Queenstown the pilot came over the comms saying that the weather had deteriorated in Queenstown and were going to have to circle for a bit before we could land, then half an hour later he was back - still no improvement so we were going to divert to ...

Rose: My head is spinning - too many beautiful sights -too much to process. I have felt like this before here in NZ - sometimes I just want to close my eyes to allow myself to really soak it all up. This really is an incredibly beautiful country. So we stay one night in Te Anau, which by English standards would probably win some sort of award, but here is just another lake surrounded by mountains. We stay in the YHA which is probably one of the best in NZ in terms of cleanliness and facilitie...

It was ******* rain when we left Dunedin!! Heavy and slippery. As the drive went by, it became a bit clearer. We arrived in Te Anau and relaxed in the afternoon. in the evening, we went to the glowworm caves. Each cave we have been visiting so far has been very different from one another. For the first time we saw a river flowing in the caves. We walked through the amazing grotto's and then took a small boat (still inside the caves) and were driven in the dark only lit by the millions of glow...