From Franz Joseph we carried on south to Queenstown (which numpty Kate keeps calling Queensland by mistake) where we spent the night before heading to Manapouri in the Fiordland area for our Doubtful Sound cruise. We were thinking of driving another 2 hours to Milford Sound, which you can access by road and so save money, but it's apparently a lot busier than Doubtful and much smaller, so we decided to put experience before pennies...doubt that will every happen again while Tim's around :)
To get there we had to take a 1 hour boat journey across lake Manapouri, then a bus ride over Wilmot Pass. Then we had 3 hours cruising the Sounds before heading back. There were a few bonuses thrown in; a rather odd trip to an underground power station; complimentary tea and coffee; and unseasonal snow fall overnight and during the day that left the mountain tops covered - gorgeous. It meant we were a bit delayed because the driver had to put on snow chains going over the pass, and it was really rather chilly on the water (hence the sinister photo of me - yes, it's me, not Tim - completely covered), but it made all the difference to the trip.
All in all money well spent...
1 comment:
Wow, the view is incredibly beautiful! It must have been such a great feeling to be able to experience the area.
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