Sunday 11th May 2003

Argued all day, (several days on the road finally takes its toll). Headed down to Wanaka, stopped off at the Blue Pools (walked across a rope bridge). There was an amazing road-side waterfall.

Visited Puzzling World which was great fun! Took a nice walk around Wanaka Lake. Parked up at the local campsite, then wandered into Wanaka town. Had pizza, then went to an Internet Cafe to email everyone (we hadn’t had much Internet access recently). The weather was [quote] “bloody freezing cold”!

Monday 12th May 2003

The weather was still (bloody) freezing cold. We drove down to Diamond Lake, (pasr Glendhu Bay). Headed up towards Queenstown. Stopped at the Cardrona Hotel for tea & cakes. We had lunch at the lookout. Went to explore the Crown Ranges Summit, but it was closed off! Tried to drive up the ‘Remarkables’ to access Lake Alta, (Alphine Tarn). Quick stop at Queenstown, then headed for Glenorchy.

Tuesday 13th May 2003

Well, it finally had to happen… Lucy got a speeding ticket! The speed limit was 100 km/h and was caught doing 126 km/h, what was crazy was that Lucy was actually trying to reach 140 km/h (just to see if the campervan could do it!)

Twelve Mile Delta; Close Burn Bay; Glendhu Jetty (duck feeding); Deer Parks Heights (where there was lots of Lord of the Rings filming locations; wild/tame animals: goats, deer, donkeys).

Stayed at Lake Takapo.

Wednesday 14th May 2003

Drove to Christchurch airport, on the way we stopped at Fairlie; Geraldine (to pay the speeding fine); Monunf Somers.

Tried to find Mount Hutt township for pertol, whilst driving on fumes we found a pertol pump and discovered that the township doesn’t exist!

Got to Christchurch, finished food and dropped off the campervan, then headed for the Airport. Flew to Auckland, got to the hotel, had a couple of hours sleep before we headed to Fiji!

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