Welcome to Fiordland!
1st December 2009 A travelling day today, getting ourselves from Kingston to Manapouri, ready for the Doubtful Sound trip tomorrow. It wasn’t a great distance to cover, only about 2 hours or so, but it took us past Te Anau, so we stopped off there for a look around, and to book some accomodation for tomorrow night to return to after we’ve been to Doubtful Sound. Te Anau is a fairly small place, and there isn’t a great deal here - a few holiday parks, supermarket and outdoor clothing shops seems to be about it. It really is a town to base yourself in to go and explore the Fiordland area. We had a look around a few of the outdoor clothing shops, and seeing as it has been so cold of late, and that we’re out on boats a lot in the next couple of days, we kitted ourselves out with a couple of Merino wool t-shirts - hopefully they’ll be warm! ...