Anchorage Motel te Anau

After my long road trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound, including the 90 minute cruise, I spent the evening in Te Anau. It's a tiny, lakefront town that's got motels that front the lake and one major street. That's it! I finally treated myself to a ...

... room is good, we parked up and logged on to the internat for a bit before taking a stroll into town. Our motel is a 5 min walk from the Te Anau lakeside which is as picturesque as ever, there is a float plane and a helicopter ready to go for sightseeing ...

... of very cold white wine, neither of which we a have on us at that moment, so we will bank them for later. Onward to Te Anau. To be perfectly honest, Jenna has warned us that it was not the most exciting place in New Zealand. I recollect her saying it ...

... half way between the equator and the south pole and we also saw the Stuart mountains across the water as we drove through the Te Anau downs. We took a photo stop in Eglinton Valley, a green valley surrounded by mountains, and at the mirror lakes we had a ...

We drove a long way from Queenstown to the head of the Fiordland National Park, the city of Te Anua .  We didn't make stops on the way since it was rainy, and most of the views were of farmland. Te Anua is at the head of the Te ...

... ! It was a blast! The first day was a little bit overcast, but nice cool hiking weather! The first hut we stayed at was called Anchorage and it was located about 4 1/2 hours in from the beginning of the trail. It sat right on a beach and so you can ...

... time in the trip that I wore shorts and short sleeved shirts, which was refeshing. I stayed that first night at Anchorage Hut where I bunked with four American college students from Vanderbilt and Colorado College who are studying abroad at Canterbury ...

Day 5 This will be a somewhat dull piece of reporting- no photographs from what may be the most stunning day of scenery due to an SD card malfunction. I refuse to say any more as it makes me rather cross. But what we did do was start the day early and ...