Traveling the world

joulukuuta 2019 - huhtikuuta 2020

139-päiväinen seikkaillu — Christina Lue lisää

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Matkaaja Traveling the world
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- Päivä 42
- lauantai 11. tammikuuta 2020 klo 10.36
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Korkeus: 12 m
- Uusi Seelanti Invercargill -46.41283, 168.34619246°24’46” S 168°20’46” E
Day off
11. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Today I have a calm day. I really need it!
I used the day to get my car to the service and the oil changed. Nice system here. You go there, leave your car and they tell you when you can come back. In my case they said, it takes 30 min.
No need to make an appointment, don’t even think they do it at all.
And the whole thing is costing 84$ if they use up to 4 liters of oil. If your car needs more, you pay the rest extra. I had to pay 92$ and my car is in good condition!
Awesome 😎

The waiting time I used to try to find a hot water bottle. I am tired of freezing overnight and sleeping badly because of it.
It wasn’t so easy to find one, but the 5. store finally had one! And I really mean, one!!

Lucky me!
The rest of the day I was spending in the campground, washing my clothes, planning the next days and booking some exciting trips as well 🤩
Of course, I found some good prices 😉🤗

The weather is bad. Blowing like hell and in the afternoon the rain came as well, but it got much warmer during the day!! Sooo nice!! Must be around 20 degrees or maybe even more!Lue lisää
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- Päivä 43
- sunnuntai 12. tammikuuta 2020 klo 11.09
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Korkeus: 252 m
- Uusi Seelanti Lookout Point -46.614975, 168.33880546°36’54” S 168°20’20” E
Bluff
12. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
The weather today is strange. Changing between sunshine, rain, storm and something in between.
Good that I have not planned in so much for today.

I went to Bluff to take a look around this small town, the gateway to Steward Island. I decided against visiting Steward Island mostly because of the weather and also because I found out, that the ferry to Steward Island ist quite expensive.
And I have enough wind and rain here at the moment and don’t need to pay much money for it to have the same shit weather there.

I went to the lookout point what was quite a steep drive up the hill but the view was nice.
I also went to Sterling Point for a small walk around there.
Not too much, what was good! As I left Bluff it started to rain like hell! Good timing.
I went back to the campground to recharge my batteries even more.
The next days will be full of adventures and activities so I will need it! 🤗Lue lisää
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- Päivä 44
- maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2020 klo 10.41
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Korkeus: 12 m
- Uusi Seelanti Waianiwa Creek -46.347512, 168.24409546°20’51” S 168°14’39” E
Riverton Lookout and Cosy Nook
13. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
After a good breakfast, I left the campground around 10 am. Driving on a small road can lead to some unexpected problems. 🙈😂
I got stuck behind some sheep’s, well not some, it was a lot of sheep’s 😂
I was stuck there for like 20 minutes or so? During that time another car showed up and was driving next to the Quad for quite some time, I guess a neighbor.
After a while, they gave me a sign to follow the car and we were passing through all the sheep. Took at least 5 minutes but I think it was longer.
Nice from them to help me pass. I had to be extremely careful as some sheep’s tried to pass between the cars.

As the weather was not so good in the morning, it was actually raining a little bit as well, I did only a short walk to a lookout in Riverton instead of the loop track as I originally had planned.

For the next stop, the weather was already much better, still pretty wind but at least the sun was shining now.
Cosy Nock is a rough coastline with some nice rocks around and the pretty rough ocean.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Traveling the world
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- Päivä 44
- maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2020 klo 12.38
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Korkeus: 15 m
- Uusi Seelanti Orepuki -46.2771, 167.73016346°16’38” S 167°43’49” E
Gemstone Beach and McCrackens Lookout
13. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Gemstone Beach was my next stop. You can actually find gemstones here if you are lucky!
It’s a lot of stones on the beach in all different kinds of colors. As I don’t want to carry around more stuff in my backpack, later on, I didn’t look around for some nice stones. 🙈
But a lot of people were there and doing it.

McCracken's Lookout was just a short drive away and a nice stop as well! Still pretty windy but otherwise it’s getting warmer and warmer!
I like that!Lue lisää
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- Päivä 44
- maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2020 klo 13.31
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Korkeus: 53 m
- Uusi Seelanti Clifden -46.019189, 167.71890346°1’9” S 167°43’8” E
Clifton Limestone Caves
13. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Now I am leaving the coast to drive up into the land to the Fiordland.
I am really looking forward to it as I have heard so much about the Fiordlandnationalpark and all the sounds, waterfalls, rivers and of course mountains.

I stopped the Clifton Limestone Caves to take a look around the caves. You can actually go into them and follow them for a few hundred meters. I was only going a short part of it, as I was alone and I don’t like the idea to get into a long cave on my one and at the part, I turned around I would need to go down on my knees to pass under a hanging rock and I was just not feeling for that at all 😉😂

It’s a really nice area around as well with all the green hills and the limestones here and there.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Traveling the world
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- Päivä 44
- maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2020 klo 14.17
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Korkeus: 159 m
- Uusi Seelanti Borland Burn -45.77807, 167.59355345°46’41” S 167°35’37” E
Lake Monowai
13. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Lake Monowai was the next one on my list. Here I did only a short walk to a lookout as the Sandflys are so nasty around here 😳
Sandflys are horrible little black flys that are cutting up the skin to drink the blood, only the female Sandflys does that.
It really hurts and their bites are itching like hell afterward. They are worse than mosquitoes I can say. I hate them!

The walk to Lake Monowai was trough a nice forest with many mice 😳
I saw them everywhere and they were not really scared of me.
Horrible!

The Lake though is beautiful and I could take a short pause here before the Sandflys started to attack me again.Lue lisää
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- Päivä 44
- maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2020 klo 15.49
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Korkeus: 153 m
- Uusi Seelanti Waiau River -45.663742, 167.65541245°39’49” S 167°39’19” E
Rakatu Wetlands
13. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The last real stop on the way to Te Anau was at the Rakatu Wetlands.
This was actually the best stop for today as this is a really nice place to visit! The walk to the river was nice and easy until I had to climb over some fallen trees and a lot of branches. But that was actually fun and not to difficult at all. From the river, I had a nice view of the mountains around me.
I then also walked to the lookout point to get an nice view over the wetlands as well. I divided against the loop track from 2 hours as it was already pretty late and I still had a few km left to Te Anau.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Traveling the world
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- Päivä 44
- maanantai 13. tammikuuta 2020 klo 16.32
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Korkeus: 213 m
- Uusi Seelanti Southland Statistical Area -45.616005, 167.69876245°36’58” S 167°41’56” E
Road to Te Anau and Waiau River
13. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Some more pictures I took on the way to Te Anau!

I arrived there around 6 pm and the first campground I stopped at was actually full already, what was not to bad, I didn’t really like it there, don’t know why just got the feeling, that it’s not right.
So I went to the Top 10 Campground and here I was lucky to get the last free spot for tonight.
Perfect!
So I used the rest of the evening to shower and cook and tried to go to bed early as I need to get up at 5 o’clock tomorrow morning 😳😬Lue lisää
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- Päivä 45
- tiistai 14. tammikuuta 2020 klo 7.29
- ☀️ 6 °C
- Korkeus: 186 m
- Uusi Seelanti Home Creek -45.563012, 167.6123545°33’47” S 167°36’44” E
Lake Manapouri
14. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C
The night was freezing cold. I woke up at 3.30 am freezing like hell. I fell asleep before I had been fixing my hot-water bottle 🙄
As I need to get up at 5 am anyway I didn't go up to fix one then. Just put on my hoodie and an extra pair of socks and tried to sleep a bit more.
To get out of bed at 5 o'clock was not easy I can say. It was soo cold, but I had to get up, get dressed and eat breakfast to be in time for my coach drive to Lake Manapouri.

At 6 o'clock I left the campground and was outside the Go Orange Shop at 6.05 am. If I was there already yesterday to figure out, where I can park my car over the day without a problem and the said, I should be there around 6 am, definitely my later than 6.15 for the check-in.

I was at least not the first one. A girl from Ireland was already there and two more was showing up at 6.15.
But no one from Go Orange 🤔
We were standing there waiting and freezing, it is only 3 degrees 🥶🥶
At 6.25 our coach was arriving so we could finally get out of the cold.
It was only a 20 min drive to Pearl Harbor in Manapouri, we picked up 6 more people from their motels on the way as well.

In Pearl Harbor, we only had to wait a few minutes until it was time to get on the boat that will take us over Lake Manapouri to the end of the West Arm.
This part of the trip is operated by Real Journeys as they are the only boat operator on Lake Manapouri.
The cruise took around 45 minutes. The closer we come to West Arm, the more clouds were appearing around the mountains.
I hope, they are disappearing again before we reach Doubtful Sound 🤞🏼
After leaving the boat we got split up in two groups on two different coaches.
The first coach to leave was the coach with the Kayakers and shortly after them, it was our turn. The bus drive took around 45 minutes and we got a lot of information from our driver Scott.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Traveling the world
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- Päivä 45
- tiistai 14. tammikuuta 2020 klo 9.09
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Korkeus: 13 m
- Uusi Seelanti Helena Arch -45.459587, 167.15159745°27’35” S 167°9’6” E
Doubtful Sound I
14. tammikuuta 2020, Uusi Seelanti ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Shortly after 9 o’clock, we reached Doubtful Sound and our boat, the Tasman Explorer for our Doubtful Sound Cruise.
And what should I say, all the clouds are gone!!!! 🤩

It’s still pretty cold but the weather can’t be better!

We are only 41 people on the cruise today, plus our bus driver Scott and our skipper John-O.
So it’s a really nice small group and we have a lot of space on the boat to move around and get nice pictures.
Really nice!

Coffee, Tea, Cappuccino and Hot Chocolate are for free and everyone was straight getting a hot drink to warm up a little bit from inside!
After a short while, our skipper spotted some Bottlenose Dolphins!
They were pretty far away from us, playing around. In Doubtful Sound, boats are not allowed to approach the dolphins. There is a group of Bottlenose Dolphins living in the Sound ad they are protected. So we could only slow down, watch them playing around from a distance as hope they maybe gonna come a little bit closer. But they, unfortunately, did not. But we saw them 🤗

As the weather is so good we could drive out from the sound into the ocean and turn around there and go back on the other side of the island the is in front of the sound! They told us, that yesterday this was not possible because it was to rough out on the ocean.

So I really, really lucky to book the trip for today 😍🤗

While we were cruising back everyone was enjoying the scenery and as it was getting warmer and warmer it was really nice to stand outside in the top deck!
We saw some seals lying around on the rocks and one was playing around in the water, but all too far away for a nice picture.

And then we saw some more dolphins 😍
But also this time they where to far away to take a picture from them, but it's was so nice to watch them jump around and having a good time.

After 2 1/2 hours filled with awesome scenery and a lot of information we returned to the harbor and had to leave the boat and jump back onto the bus.
Scott promised us some nice photo stops on the way back as we are not so much in a hurry now.Lue lisää
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