🇳🇿 Te Anau and Milford Sound, days 23&24

It seems that among you there are neither friends of Shakespeare's sonnets nor my cooking skills 🤔 The latter makes me think.

Saturday

After a perfectly poached egg, we continued towards the mountains and west coast. But I still had to take a few pictures in Bluff.

In Te Anau I checked in, hand fed pears to the llamas, grabbed a bike and headed to the lake. Unbelievable. So beautiful. In one hour I met two people and a very happy dog.

Then on to the library, the use of a computer is strictly limited to 30 minutes per day, that was not enough to set up the blog in English.

Back, do the laundry and cycle to and from the lake again.

Quite practical, although probably not very sustainable, are the large boilers that can be found in the kitchens of many accommodations. You can tap boiling hot water for e.g. tea from them at any time.

Nice temperature but bigger slippery rocks and very flat, didn't get far. Despite it! I've been to Lake Te Anau!

And then I sat and just stared at all this for a good hour and there was nobody else.

Back, I made a salad and shared with David, a retired Aucklander who works for wildlife conservation.

On Sunday, April 1st, I left at 7:15 in the blackest of darkness. It is 120km to Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park. On the way I got a really good cappuccino. Of course, when I saw the car, I meowed to stop immediately. I was there at 9:45 and on the boat at 10:30. Really nice there. Like Norway with a touch of the exotic on the shore.

The fjord is 13km long and 300m deep, we sailed to the open sea with plenty of waves. It didn't rain that much😂

A baby seal was sleeping on a rock.

I met Jason from San Francisco who had a good tip for the Galapagos Islands and who remembers Schöneberg in Berlin because he thinks the gay subculture is so great there. Everyone thinks Berlin is great, I don't get it.

The skipper drove surprisingly close to the rock faces and very close to/almost under a waterfall.

I drove back rather soggy and relaxed with tea, spinach tortellini with Alfredo sauce, blog, reading, llamas, porch.

David was kind enough to call Europcar while I was away and also lost his teeth.

Tomorrow we continue via Queestown into the mountains, then a bit up the west coast, and then, change of plan, over the Lewis Pass back to Kaikoura. I want sperm whale!

On 30.3. I looked where I am on 8.4. can sleep in Picton before the ferry trip. There is nothing more than accommodation for €350 or a bunk bed in a 4-bed dorm. For €16. Craziness. I reserved the backpacker hotel. Since I want to bang on the plaster the day before for a given reason, it will be a decent contrast program.

So, now I'm reading something, waiting for the logs to be lit in the fireplace and I'll go to bed early, it was nice, but also exhausting today.