Te Anau

Quite a boring trip from Dunedin, very flat and lots of sheep.

Te Anau is a little town with a very big lake, float plane trips are possible but not many.

Gwen went to local supermarket to get tomorrows lunch since there are no cafes, nor permanent residents in Milford, only access is by road, ship from the Tasman Sea or by air. 

All supplies go down the solitary road - State Highway 84, which we found at dinner was at that time closed due to a landslip caused by heavy rain 2 days earlier at the same spot of a massive slip a few months earlier which closed the road for several weeks.

Next morning we drove down the road anyway despite already knowing that it was still closed with only empty buses to rescue those trapped and a lorryload of supplies being allowed. The road remained closed until afternoon 2 days later.

We got some decent pictures but much the same as we already had, apart for pictures of wild lupins which are on all uncultivated land on the South Island and have been classified as a pernicious weed.

Back in Te Anau we were given a lake cruise and a possible trip down a cave to see Glow worms, Gwen had already done this on the way down to Rotorua so we stayed in the café and got bitten by sand flies instead.