As we said in our last entry we hired a kayak for the day on Wednesday. It was a bit crowded with three of us in a double! Here's William getting ready to paddle with us.
It was an absolutely perfect day. We paddled across Queen Charlotte Sound to Lochmara Lodge where we had coffee. As you can see it's an idyllic spot. We must go back some time - for at least a week.
For our last day in the South Island we were walking again. This time it was the last section of the Queen Charlotte Track, so just the middle bit left! Then it was an early start for the ferry on Friday and up to a strange town called Dannevirke, which was originally settled by Danes. On the way we stopped at the National Wildlife Centre at Mount Bruce where we finally saw a couple of kiwis. No pictures though - because they are nocturnal they were in a special building which is dark through the day and lit up at night.
Since then we've visited Napier, which is an art deco town, rebuilt after an earthquake in 1931, and Taupo where we got mixed up with the NZ Ironman competition, and now we are in Rotorua. More on that later.
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Did you enter the ironman competition?
No it was raining and I might have got my hair wet.
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