An early start to the day at 0630 so as to be up early, pack our things and catch the 0800 Ferry to Bluff. It was a gorgeous morning weather wise as we left Stewart Island and we have been so lucky with the weather in the last few days.. We stopped in Invercargill for a quick breakfast and some food shopping and left Town on the Scenic Route to Te Anau via Riverton, Tuatapere. Lake Manapouri . It was flat countreyside at first but then the mountains started appearing and then growing bigger and you could even see some snow caps. The weather had got a bit cloudy now and not so good for photographs. We had lunch overlooking Lake Manapouri and arrived in Te Anau around 3 pm.
This is a small town mainly for the benefit of tourists wishing to visit Doubtful Sound or Milford Sound. The Lake here is also very nice and there are also trips to a cave where there are some glow worms me, being a mistrusting type, I bet they are LED’s.
We had booked on the internet from Stewart Island a Doubtful Sound Day Trip and was expecting an email confirmation but it had not arrived by mid afternoon. Luckily our Motel is only 5 minutes walk from the Tour Company booking office and so we were able to confirm our travel plans for tomorrow. It’s another early start again as the boats and Coaches are quite full and so they have put on an extra boat and coach, not just for us, but this will enable us to go.
So we have now retired to the Motel, Jennifer to do some washing and Noel to cook the Dinner.
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