Bella Vista Motel Te Anau

... too! We set off with our guide through some amazing underground caves, then eventually we are guided silently and with some rather over dramatic hand gesturing into a small boat. Then the lights go out and the guide I image pulls us along a rope on the wall by hand, there is a lot of bashing against the walls! And I can only wonder how if talking would disturb the glow worms, the constant vibration of the boat crashing ...

... of bumps and a very dirty car later, we arrived at the very pretty lake, surrounded by snow-capped mountains. We admired the scenery, tried to avoid being bitten by the sandflies and then we drove back again. In Clifden we investigated the caves. There was a tiny hole in a rock that we had to crawl through to get in, but by now it was raining so we didn't think it was sensible to go into a dark cave in the rain, so we continued on. We ...

... Mitre Peak rose before us in a eerie triangle. By this point, the sun was doing it's best to fight it's way through the clouds and although it was still shrouded it was strangely lit from behind which made it look very Lord of the Rings, despite it not being part of the film set. Numerous photos later, which no doubt some of you have already endured on Facebook, we set off back for Te Anau, looking forward to the return drive very much. It was to be more of a ...

... bon ca serait mieux si mon corps se sentait un peu mieux tout de meme mais c'est vraiment proche de l'extase totale!). Le soir je rencontre deux allemandes dans mon refuge que j'avais deja recontre il y a 5 semaine de ca. Elles font la rando dans le sens inverse de moi. C'est marrant de les retrouver ici... et puis je vais me coucher tot - j'ai les yeux qui brillent de fatigue. Le lendemain je me leve et tout le monde est deja partit!!... je me ...

Well, today was a real fiordland storm. Chris said this is not as bad as it can get, but it was pretty rough and rainy all day long. We had hoped to take the little boat out into the river, but it just poured and poured, then the wind really started to blow hard. It even blew some of the waterfalls straight back up the mountains! We waited it out until lunch, then tried to go out to the sea again to find some seals. But when we got to the mouth of the sound, it was really ...

... dis plutot que c'est Spooky! D'abord, c'est un vrai musee avec une vingtaine de voiture Morris Minor (la premiere voiture a mon pere), des vielles photos et articles de journaus accroches sur tout les murs. Les chalets vont de maison miniature a chiotte avec une fenetre. Je vous fais grace des details sur les toilettes mais disont seulement que tu te laves vite et tu essaie de toucher a le moins de chose possible. Comme je suis ...