New Years Day was pretty quiet for us. It was the half way point of our trip as we had now been here for three months. It’s been said that you can tell how much fun you are having by how fast the time goes. We must be having a blast because I can’t believe how fast the last three months have gone by. The good news is that we still have another three months to go.
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| Blue highights our travels in December |
Later in the afternoon we did go for a few groceries as we needed a couple of things for dinner. Dinner tonight was BBQ'd Salmon that we bought at the Salmon Farm the day before. It was slow cooked on a charcoal grill and even if I say so myself, it was pretty darn good. It doesn't make up for missing my turkey dinner but it came close.
After dinner we watched the sun set on Wanaka, it would be our last night here. We are very happy that we picked here to hunker down for the Xmas and New Year’s rush. The setting was great and we thoroughly enjoyed our time here. It is a great little community and we will look back at our time here with fondness.
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| Our last night in Wanaka |
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| Wanaka - a pretty special place |
Day 94 had us getting away around 10AM. Our trip today had us going back to Queenstown before carrying on to Te Anau. This was old ground for us as we had come this way earlier. However we wanted to continue our exploration of the South Island by driving down the remainder of the west side. In order to do this we had to return to Te Anau.
We did take a different route to Queenstown that had traveling south on Hwy 8 until we reached Cromwell. The country between Wanaka and Cromwell is mostly farming, both livestock and agriculture. Cromwell seems to be the cherry capital of New Zealand. Lake Dunstan came into view as we approached Cromwell.
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| Lake Dunstan |
Upon leaving Cromwell we entered and travelled through the Kawarau Gorge which is about 25 miles long. The gorge has a natural beauty and is also the site of several extreme sports. Bungy jumping, kayaking and riverboarding are the main ones.
Once we left the gorge we entered into wine country and we passed quite a few wineries on our way to Queenstown.
The drive from Queenstown to Te Anau was extremely picturesque but as we had travelled it before we didn't stop for any pictures. I just pointed the van west and didn’t stop until reaching Te Anau. We checked in and spent the rest of the day planning out our next few weeks. We are looking forward to being on the move again.
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