The Moorings Wanaka

... to depart, unable to tolerate the nasal accents and boorish behaviour. The Sky Sports channel later revealed to us that the loudest and most obnoxious of the yanks was in fact the Olympic half-pipe gold-medallist, Sean White (the "Flying Tomato" to all those in the know). He and the US team were unwinding from the recent international snowboarding competition on Cardrona and obviously staying at our hotel! Shame that none of them are a) skiers b) good-looking c) older and d) not ...

... to get rid of the rust. The view again atop was just brilliant, mountains far as the eye could see and a 360 degrees view literally. The first day was perfect, not a cloud in the sky, so the perfect view could be had in its entirety...second day was pret-near as good. Skiing conditions were fabulous, lots of powder, no ice, lots of intermediate, gradual runs, just perfect for me. It was meant to be i think ...

28.02.2009 Wir fahren los und halten als erstes beim Aussichtspunkt fuer den Franz Josef Gletscher, sind aber nicht so beeindruckt und fahren weiter zum Fox Gletscher Aussichtspunkt. Nach einigen Fotos geht es weiter. Wir fahren Richtung Sueden ueber den Haast Pass. Hier bieten sich zum Teil tolle Ausssichten ueber die Gegend. Gegen 16.00 Uhr kommen wir in Wanaka an und checken im dortigen Top Ten ein. Gegen abend faenggt es dann an zu regnen ...

We left Franz Josef and continued south towards a town called Wanaka. On the way, we stopped at Lake Matheson, a stunning mirror lake that affords some great views to Mount Tasman and Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest peak at 3,764m. We arrived in Wanaka about 3pm and we stopped for a ...

... when they start killing everyone. Luckily most bitey flying creature prefer Mable, so Mac was ok. Mable looks she has the plague now. They arrived at Wanaka scratching and pleased to escape the horror of the car. Wanaka is a lovely town on the banks of a lake, Mac thinks it may be called Lake Wanaka, The views are stunning and a really good buzz, which is what happened when the ...

... in my best judgment and because we were in an insured rental car, to give it a go. We made it across safe and sound and the other cars shortly followed. We hit about 10 more Fords until we made it to the trailhead. The beginning of our hike had very dramatic scenery while we made our way up a roaring river valley. We also crossed a very cool suspension bridge which looked ...

... next day we were walking up to Roy's Peak - I can honestly say it lived up to its strenuous reputation. 3 hours of constantly walking uphill - from the very start you could see the peak and then it was a series of switchbacks up the hill. Not really the most interesting walk as you literally saw the same view, but from different heights. Getting to the top was a relief and there were great views of Lake Wanaka & Mt Aspiring. Did feel like a good achievement ...

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I'm sure the vast majority of you reading this will have heard of Queenstown, but I doubt many of you will have heard of Wanaka?

I think the closest I got before our trip was hearing the town's name shouted at a few ...

... trip actually... I found a brochure for something called the Southern Scenic Route which goes all the way around the coast of Southland - and looks pretty cool, we are gonna take like 10 days and do it all properly, its gonna be pretty cool I think.

I also pondered around town again and took some more pictures and checked my emails and internet stuff, I am seriously gonna have to start budgetting from now on, I have spent way more than I thought I had!!!