Friday 21st April
Today started with a very icy run in country Arrowtown. By the end my fingers were so cold I was in pain. It took about 20 mins before I could feel them again.

Our first stop today was Arrowtown village which was holding the Annual Autumn Festival. The trees here were so colourful in different shades of green, yellow, orange and red. We visited the Chinese settlement which still had some of the original humpies. It is amazing how small and simple these dwellings were. One room with a fire. Haven’t things changed in the last hundred years. Is it for the better? We the walked through the town centre which has many old and quaint heritage listed buildings.

From Arrowtown we headed into Queenstown, then drove for an hour to Glenorchy along Lake Wakatipu. A very scenic drive. After lunch at Glenorchy we drove back the same way to Queenstown. with the lake and the Remarkables mountain range in view most of the time.

At Queenstown Colleen and I went up in the Gondola, it carries you 450 metres above Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu to the top of Bob’s Peak. After this we then drove to Te Anau (Te-Ar-now) for tonights stopover.