Ta Anui, woolen tee's, cold, fjord land, Queenstown cluster: Yesterday we put in 4.5 hours of driving in. The drive wasn't that long 150 miles but it was pretty spectacular, big gorges, mountains rising fro lakes. We drove from Wanaka to Queenstown.
Q was a real cluster crowded congested confusing. Every place calling itself the extreme activity center, after 10 min I said we have to get ot of here. That said it must have been beautiful before all of this, the natural setting is dramatic.
Mike and Maggie
Our hosts Mike and Maggie told us that Doughtful Sound not the traditional Milford Sound was the trip to do, so we are going on that today $520NZ about $300uS not cheap. We have a boat ride across a lake transfer to a bus arrive at the sound and then a 3 hour cruise. The weather has been by Vegas standards terrible, rainy, windy and 50 degrees - welcome to summer on the south island. I want the cloud ceiling to rise so we get those postcard views but it will be what it will be.
underwear-tee shirts: since I was here last time I have wanted to get a couple of wool crew tee's. This time I scored. Everyone here raves about their woolen light weight shirts - you can apparently hike in the for 4 days before you start to smell. I couldn't find them on my last trip this time they were in large supply in the outdoor stores. I ran in one yesterday and it is true, not only that, I washed it in the sink last night and it is dry this morning-perfect. Icebreaker is the brand check it out on the Internet if your interested.
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