Another day, another city. We’ve arrived in Nelson and are staying in a turret on the second floor of a hotel overlooking the beach that’s got mixed Hawaiian and Chinese decoration. It’s an interesting place, to say the least. In addition to our views though, we’ve also got a sauna and a private large spa bath. Not bad!
Tonight we’re going to Cobb and Co - a restaurant V remembers from her childhood. Apparently they make amazing deep fried puffs of some sort. She can’t actually remember what they were, so dinner should be interesting.
Tomorrow, we go for a walk around a reserve near here, the name of which has slipped my mind. Too many places in the last few days. There’s seals, beaches, and sun. And a forest. We’re told it’s very nice. We were going to kayak around the bay, but it’s a little too much effort, and given that we’ve got a car, it doesn’t actually get us anywhere that we can’t already drive and walk to. So, big walks tomorrow!
After Queenstown we went to Te Anau, a nice little town near Milford Sound. Milford Sound was literally amazing - we saw the fjords! To be more precise, we sailed through them. Words really can’t describe how impressive the scenery is there - we were lucky enough to go when it was raining, so the place was nothing but craggy mountains, waterfalls everywhere, and even better, no bugs!
We also went for a wak to Rob Roy glacier. It was longer than we were expecting, but again, really impressive. We weren’t really expecting it to be as blue as it was!
From there we went to Franz Joseph Glacier, where we stayed in the town. It was a really nice place - the back of the room was solid glass on the edge of the forest. We were going to catch a helicopter onto the glacier itself, but the weather’s just been too bad, so we had to give it a miss. Instead we drove out and walked to the mouth of the glacier. We’re actually really happy we saw Rob Roy glacier - Franz Joseph is a lot larger, but because of all the traffic it gets from tours, the end of the glacier is really dirty.