Edgewater Resort Wanaka

... me that the town of Makarora sold petrol and was only 18km away (when my gage was showing 34km left). Why is it that this always depletes faster than the project rate from the car's on board computer?! So, even though they charge a premium, I&#8217;m forever indebted to the southbound petrol station at the town of Makarora!!<br><br>I arrived at Wanaka about 14:00 and checked into my motel and then headed out to the Diamond Lake ...

... Kate wisely chose to remain in the truck. Incidentally we didn't get a better look... just wet feet! Heading South we travelled through some amazing West Coast scenery, lots of tumbling rivers (Josh counted 28 one-way-bridges from Fox Glacier to where we are staying in Albert Town - which is a 5 minute drive from Wanaka) and dense rainforest. Passed a beautiful, wild West Coast beach called Bruce's Bay that people had stacked little piles of rocks up for a couple of hundred ...

... j'ai fait deux marches dans les montagnes avoisinantes. Premièrement, Rob Roy's Glacier, quatre heures aller retour qui mène directement sous le glacier qu'on peut entendre craquer. Verdure et glace s'y retrouve, s'y mélangent avec de beaux résultats. Ensuite, Roy's Peak, tout près de la ville. 1000 mètres d'ascension, je m'y suis pris trop tard, je ne me suis rendu qu'au tiers mais déjà ça valait le coup d'oeil. Il y a ...

... 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 &amp; 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 ...

... we reached the foot of the Rob Roy Glacier. As we sat at its base, with no one else around, drinking in the views, we counted 25 waterfalls, plunging down the mountain sides around us. These were just the ones we could see. There were doubtless many more out of sight. The following day, after a day completing what was predominantly a valley walk and with so many mountains around us, John was keen climb one of ...

... the thundering sound of the glacier "calving" a few tonnes of glacier ice into the valley below. A little brown mouse that continually poked itself out of the rocks to steal the crumbs of cheese that had fallen out of Laura's sandwich kept the kids amused when they had had enough of the scenery. Some of you may be wondering how a five hour hike is possible with young children. All I can say is that it is possible for two seven and nine year ...

... boards anywhere, so we just had to hope that the Rasberry Creek car park wasn't too far away, or the bridge also mentioned in the directions. <br><br>So we crossed the ford and walked... <br><br>And walked ...

... thievery. One Japanese couple watched open-mouthed as a splendid specimen landed next to them, then suddenly ripped into their rucksack, deftly extracted a bag of apples and flew away with them stork-style. This walk is accessed by about 30km of gravel road with 9 fords and 9 cattle-grids; as a result Bluesmobile II has shed one or two items not strictly essential to forward motion, so if anyone does see our ...