I got up at 7am and phoned Air Fjordland about our scheduled flightseeing trip to Milford sound. Unfortunately the weather on the other side of the mountains was bad and the flight was cancelled, at least until the afternoon.
We were quite tired so went back to bed until about 10am, when we headed [...]
We left the hostel when the office opened at 8am so that we could reclaim our key deposit, and swiftly drove on the airport – completely panicked that we would miss our 10am flight as we hit the morning rush hour traffic. We arrived at the car hire place at 9am and hurried [...]
Up bright and early at 7am to start the walk to Cathedral Cove. At the end of Hahei beach, the sign indicated this was a 70 minute walk, so straight back up to the car and whizzed around to the lookout point. The walk from there was a much more palatable 25 [...]