Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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LUMSDEN

A typical small town in New Zealand. Absolutely all New Zealand towns, no matter how small, have a playground. Playgrounds are a global experience. A line of shops down the main road with a chemist, a butcher, a cafe, the post office and a pub and a bakery. We bought pies: potato top mince and…
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MILFORD SOUND WHICH IS REALLY A FJORD

But fjord was not in the English dictionary yet! We decided to take a boat into the sounds as our one and only touristy experience on this trip. It is a two hour drive in from Te Anau to Milford Sound. Mirror Lakes. A Kea found us in a car park. The kea is a…
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TE ANAU LAKE WALK

Just pictures. Unedited. This walk way is a good long pathway well used by cyclists and walkers. This whole walk is through the bird sanctuary area. Today we take the long drive into the fjord and have a look see. Later in the afternoon we will take the boat ride into Milford Sound. Evidently it…
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Te Anau

We have not got into town yet. People letting people stay for nothing in their backyards. If you are part of a NZ camper van association or something like that you have access to a list of other campers and landowners who will rent a field or yard to you for a donation or gold…
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GARSTON, SOUTHLAND

We left Canmore yesterday. and came to rest for the night further down the South Island of New Zealand in a one horse town called Grafton. We are officially in Southland, New Zealand now. This has always been a staging stop or rest stop between Queenstown ( our last stop) and Te Anau (our next…

