Another day, another new location. We said goodbye to the very friendly people in Invercargill and set off for Te Anau, which we were going to use as our base to visit Doubtful Sound (so named because Captain Cook thought it was "doubtful" he could navigate it).
The Sound can only be reached via Lake Manapouri, which we passed on our way from Invercargill so we checked how long the journey took from there to Te Anau ready for the morning (about half an hour). Our motel was lovely and central and had free Internet access on site so we could email people back home :-).
Te Anau is also where lots of people stay to visit Milford Sound. We didn't have time to visit that as well but we saw a wonderful film about it in Te Anau's cinema, called Ata Whenua - Shadowland. The photography was amazing: almost as if we were in the helicopter with the cameraman. We knew he was good because he was asked to help with the film of Lord of the Rings.
Barnaby
No comments:
Post a Comment