Not sure (doubtful – geddit?) if you can keep track of our time travelling. We’re now back to Tuesday 21st February, early in our week’s holiday near the start of our stay in New Zealand.
The day after our visit to Milford Sound, we drove 20km from Te Anau to Pearl Harbour, Lake Manapouri, where we caught the boat across the lake to West Arm. The rain and wind made the previous day seem quite dry relatively speaking!
Ten of us were then driven over the pass to Deep Cove. We passed old landslides and could see how they can happen easily, as in places the road was seriously awash. Of the hundreds of waterfalls we passed, only two are permanent. The roadside gullies were full of streaming water. It was hard to believe so much water could fall so quickly!
We then boarded the boat for our overnight trip on Doubtful Sound. The rain was torrential and visibility extremely limited but the company (10 passengers and three crew) was very congenial.
There was one Southern crested penguin (which disappeared before I could focus the camera), two sealions, and a couple of gulls but otherwise just water – below us, all around us, and cascading down the mountains. We heard the next day that there had been 225mm of rain in that 24hr!
Wednesday morning was cold and crisp – and rainfree!
We returned to Pearl Harbour and Manapouri in increasingly sunny conditions. Lake Manapuri contains 33 islands, more than any other lake in New Zealand.
Jenny & David's trip to New Zealand 