On our way

We took our time driving up the coast from Invercargil and stopped at a few of the beaches along the way to swim and do some beach combing. This picture is a house that I thought was nicely camouflaged into the side of the cliff.



We spent the night at DOC campsite on Monowai Lake. This was a pretty secluded camp site and the only people we met were hunters. The lake was beautiful and we had good shelter under trees. We also spotted an Australasian Crested Grebe floating and swimming around a marshy part of the lake. The next day we woke and made our way towards Mildford Sound. It was a rainy day but we thought we would see how far we could get maybe we would stop.



We had to bunker down for the day and play cards. The rain only got harder and there was no way we would see much of anything if we did go into Mildford Sound. So we remembered talking with someone at the folk festival that had mentioned some cabins just off the road near Hollyford track. We spotted a sign and decide to spend the rest of the day and night there. We got a cabin to ourselves and it was equip with a bunkbed, a nice little table and chairs, a checkers game, a sink and coal burning stove on which you could cook up your dinner. Glenn beat me a few times at checkers and I beat him a few times at cards. The next day we woke to sunshine yippee!