A short trip of around 120km but we don't get in until 6.30pm...
After shopping and suchlike, we set off - but the trouble is, we pass the scary shotover jetboat station and our friends on another trip did this. Can't be outdone.
Arrggghh!! We're in there somewhere. Approaching a rockface at around 70 - 90 km/hr, slewing sideways and missing it by one metre or less. Brilliant! Couldn't done in Europe that. Probably a good thing, on reflection.
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The jet boat passes under this rather elegant bridge, dedicated to Edith Cavell
We stop off at the old gold mining town of Arrowtown which is a bit commercialised but not excessively so. Really interesting museum, too. So interesting, I forgot to take any photographs.
We roll into Wanaka quite late - fill up with fuel, park the 'van and realise we should have got here earlier because it's a really nice place. Great bars, restaurants and a lakeside beach, surrounded by mountains. Lots of young people again, having fun.
Wanaka
BBQ some sausages on the communal gas BBQ then chill for the night.
Fox Glacier tomorrow - that's quite a cool place, too, I hear...
After shopping and suchlike, we set off - but the trouble is, we pass the scary shotover jetboat station and our friends on another trip did this. Can't be outdone.
Arrggghh!! We're in there somewhere. Approaching a rockface at around 70 - 90 km/hr, slewing sideways and missing it by one metre or less. Brilliant! Couldn't done in Europe that. Probably a good thing, on reflection.
Movie
The jet boat passes under this rather elegant bridge, dedicated to Edith Cavell
We stop off at the old gold mining town of Arrowtown which is a bit commercialised but not excessively so. Really interesting museum, too. So interesting, I forgot to take any photographs.
We roll into Wanaka quite late - fill up with fuel, park the 'van and realise we should have got here earlier because it's a really nice place. Great bars, restaurants and a lakeside beach, surrounded by mountains. Lots of young people again, having fun.
Wanaka
BBQ some sausages on the communal gas BBQ then chill for the night.
Fox Glacier tomorrow - that's quite a cool place, too, I hear...
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