Hi there
We have now, after almost 8 weeks on the road reached my big sister’s house. For those of you who are interested and have a map their dairy farm is located just outside Riversdale, near Gore. We arrived this afternoon and are finding it nice just being in a house again, we haven’t met any of the rest of the farms inhabitants yet (1100 cows give or take a few) but I’m sure that will be sorted out in the next couple of days.
Let’s fill you in on what’s been happening since our last post. Yesterday we left Franz Josef and took the short drive to Fox Glacier to have a look at it from a distance. What can I say about it…..lots of ice flowing down a big hill! No that would be selling it short, very impressive again but it’s not the same when you don’t get to walk on it.
We made our way down the coast to Haast where we started to head inland, up into the mountains and across Haast Pass. Very scenic stuff, snow capped peaks, massive lakes the works! Last night was spent in the town of Wanaka and the southern end of the Lake Wanaka.
Today before leaving we made a stop at Puzzling World on the outskirts of town. This place had lots of weird and wonderful illusions to confuse you like the Hall of Moving Faces & the Tilting Room as well as an outdoor 3D maze to get lost in.
From Wanaka we took the Crown Range road over the mountain and down into Queenstown. We spent a wee while wandering round the town and had lunch but the weather started to take a turn for the worse so we headed on. We’ll get back here again in the next couple of weeks for a better look round.
So that takes me back to the Blakeborough’s homestead and or home from home for the next wee while. Looks like everybody here is busy actually doing some work tomorrow (not sure what that is it’s been so long since we did any) so we are going to take ourselves off exploring. Not sure where yet but we’ll let you know what happens.
Jonny
Jill holds it all together
