New Zealand Day 2

Day 2 - We had an early flight from Christchurch to Queenstown, we left at 7:00am to land at Queenstown an hour later, but we didn't get there till afternoon. A storm rolled into Queenstown and just wouldn't clear, so we circled overhead for 1/2 hour then diverted to Invercargil, from there we got on a bus and the drove us back to Queenstown for 3 1/2 hours. There went our morning, but at least we got to see the countryside of that part of NZ. We picked up our car, called our tours at TeAnau and rescheduled since we were late, and got into TeAnau just in time. This is on Lake TeAnau on the way to the glow worm caves. The storm that was in Queenstown was still hanging around on the other side of the mountains at TeAnau...as you can see.

There is a freshwater river flowing out of a spring deep in the mountain, this forms the cave where we saw the glow worms. Sorry, no pictures of glow worms, the don't like to be photographed, they think it steals their little worm souls or something.

The sun started to come out, and so did the colors. This is the Dock where the boat dropped us off and picked us up for the glow worms at lake TeAnau. The town of TeAnau is across the lake way in the distance.

There is my main squeeze checking out the river.

This diagram and map show the cave and river system where we travelled to see the worms glowing in the pitch blackness.

Will on the western shores of TeAnau.

Some tasty drift wood that looked like a big dookie.

Even though the sun was shining, the wind out on the lake was still so cold.

Here I am back on the TeAnau side.

Yep, I like him...still.

We didn't fish, but the sign was cute.

This fisherman has an extra arm...gross.

One of the fingers of Lake TeAnau stretching back into the canyons. So Amazing.

There will be lots of this type of photo on the NZ posts, so much natural beauty in this place.

I don't need to say anything about it, it speaks for itself. So I will stop typing now...

Here is our friend Small Scott holding the key to our hotel in TeAnau. He likes to travel with us and is quite an adventurer.