We were fortunate enough to meet up with Adam who Steph had met through Rob and Lauren. Adam and his girlfriend put us up for two nights, they were so nice to us. Wanaka was a great place to recharge the batteries and take in the many views with also an interesting stop at Puzzling World. This place is filled with illusions and puzzles with a massive maze in the middle. We got a bit competitive by trying to complete the maze as fast as we could, move out the way kids!
Queenstown was next up, another outstanding place, filled with views that really did take your breathe away. The drive from Wanaka was amazing, we stopped every 10 mins to take a picture.
We spent the day wondering around the town which reminded me of a ski resort, no wonder I liked it so much. At the harbour you can go down to a viewing room which has windows looking out under the water, there's a button you can press which shoots out food to the fish so all the fish and ducks swim around to catch the food, as you can imagine the fish are very fat!
I found out an old uni friend was singing in one of the bars so we went along to watch Gemma and John play an outstanding set. Check them out (Calico, Queenstown!) Which was followed by a night out on the town. Gemma let us park in her drive way and treated us to a nice breakie in the morning, perfeck!
We couldn't hang around for too long (although we wanted to) as we had to head to Milford Sound and join a boat trip. Another amazing drive filled with views. The boat trip itself was incredible, filled with waterfalls and view after view. We spent two hours floating around the sounds (which is actually a fiord, don't ya know) drinking as much free tea as we could.
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