Rain, Rain, Rain!

The cabin last night was beautiful, and Milford Sound was amazing, but the rain was hammering down, a great soundtrack to fall to sleep to.

In the morning the lovely little stream outside our window had risen significantly! Compare this to the one last night…

Milford had come alive though, all of the granite cliffs were littered with waterfall after waterfall, it was amazing! We were a little scared that the road may have been washed out though on the way back through to the tunnel, but it was ok!

Once we cleared the Homer Tunnel and were heading for Te Anau the rain started to ease, until we were once again driving along in nice sunshine, with the occasional smattering of rain, and making good time for Queenstown.

The clerk at the Milford Lodge had recommended a place called ‘Fergburger’ in Queenstown as somewhere that did world famous burgers, and hw wasn’t wrong – the place had a queue of people at it and was rammed but the burgers were, excuse me, awesome!

Once we’d ticked that off the list, Suz and I headed up to the Queenstown SkyRide, a cable car that overlooks the whole of Queenstown and Lake Whakatipu, and gave great views (as well as kicking off a bit of vertigo)…

There were of course the usual maniacs doing bungie jumps and ‘sky swings’ from up here, but it turns out that the end of the rainbow is actually right here in Queenstown, both Suz and I thought this place was great!

So to round the evening off, after having done all that we could in one afternoon, we went to see the film ‘Kick Ass’. Once word. Brilliant! Highly recommend, but bring your sense of humour!

Think we’re off to Mt. Cook again tomorrow, only this time, we’re going to the other side :)