After sleeping soundly in Te Anau we woke to sunny skies and a world transformed. In the night there had been very heavy snow all over the
Southern Alps, in January! We walked outside to a brilliant blue lake ringed by snow-capped
mountains.
We had a driving day ahead of us. We didn’t have
the time to go further south along the scenic route or to Invercargill. We cut
straight across the island along the Waipahu Highway through country towns
like Gore and Clinton. But EVERY drive is a scenic drive in the South Island
and we got to see lots of hills and sheep and coloured mailboxes and road
signs.
Lyn became increasingly obsessed by the mailboxes. They were all the same design but came in different colours.
At Balclutha we diverted to the coast to
see “the Nuggets” from Nugget Point and stopped at the unfortunately named Kaka
Beach on the way.
We walked out to Nugget Point Lighthouse and heard and saw, and definitely smelt, the fur seals way below us.
After a pleasant drive we arrived at Dunedin where we will spend the next two nights.
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