Saturday 06 January 2007 - Tuatapere to Te Anau
Trip: Tuatapere - Clifden - Otahu Flat - Waraki - Blackmount -
Mt York - Manapouri - Te Anau - Te Anau Downs - Knobs Flat -
Cascade Creek - Milford Sound - Cascade Creek - Knobs Flat -
Te Anau Downs - Te Anau
End Mileage: 184642
Start Mileage: 184285
Distance Travelled: 357
For a change started the day with a bacon sandwich breakfast - those of you
who have read a few of our trips away will notice the sarcasm! ;-)
We had a quick look at the Bushmans Museum in Tuatapere and the on the way
to Te Anau.
First stop was Clifden Suspension Bridge
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| From Manapouri we went on to Milford Sound. Whilst it
wasn't the best weather (rain rain rain) there was so much water that we are
pretty sure we saw more water falls than you'd normally see on this
road:
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Entrance to the Milford tunnel.
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Milford
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Boats at Milford.
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The Chasm - short "bush" walk from the Milford Road.
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| What the discerning summer traveller wears on a bush
walk:
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Keas in the car park at The Chasm.
View back to Milford from tunnel road up from Milford
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Road back to Te Anau.
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One of the rest areas on the road, where camping is allowed.
Mirror Lakes.
| If not the rain ruining the mirror effect
there is always a duck:
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The walk that you take to see Mirror Lakes.
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| The weather coming in:
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Where did the cloud go.
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