It had been quite a stressful week. I had been checking the Metservice weather reports regularly, hoping for some good news in the 7 and 3 day forecasts – hoping that somehow, the weather reports were wrong. By Friday, I had resigned myself to a wet weekend hoping that we would get a few breaks in the weather when we really needed it. As we woke on Saturday morning the day promised a lot and we hoped for the best. We met at the Caltex at Fanshawe Street and huddled under the canopy ...
Day 9 – Te Anau to Wanaka By Day 9 the good weather seemed here to stay and the thermals were stowed away and the mesh jackets and gloves came out. We stopped at Kingston for coffee and then it was a easy cruise along the banks of Lake Wakatipu to Queenstown. This is a breath-taking lakeside ride and one we would love to do again - nice views and good twisty corners. We stopped at the wharf in Queenstown just in tine to see the Ernslaw steamship berth – cameras got a good hammering ...