NZ Day 4 - Fox Glacier - Haast - Manapouri
Photos along the drive:
http://priyankaandankurdownunder.shutterfly.com/pictures/177
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| Fox Glacier |
A long and beautiful drive alog the west coast was the agenda for this day, with a brief stop and short walk at the Fox glacier and a stop at a famous shack in Haast, famous for its regional-favourite 'Whitebait patties'... White blait is a very small fish which is mixed in whole with an interesting batter and eventually put into a sandwich - good stuff!!
The weather got a bit cooler as we drove south and we were surprised at how beautiful Lake Wanaka and its city were and how they were hardly published.
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| Along the Southern Alps - South Island, NZ |
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| One of a few hundred single-lane bridges |
What goes up must go down - all these days of serious speeding bore unwanted fruit as we left Lake Wanaka and a cop clocked me going 20 over the 100km/hr limit on the winding roads but this was not too bad as a car warned me about the cop and I was actually braking ;). The cop was really nice, saw my California license and tried to explain how the mileage was in kms and not miles :) and eventually gave me my
first speeding ticket for nearly 20 years... a ticket at 115 km/hr to save me from crossing a fine threshold - said he couldn't leave me with just a warning as it was a holiday weekend (I tried!).
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| The speeding ticket! |
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| Had to stop and take a picture of one of these, for the record |
Great news about the ticket - it was only $80 NZ (about $60 US)!! And all we had to do was walk into a bank with this ticket and pay it right off - which we did later but not before taking a picture of it :)!
We drove into the little town of Manapouri as the sun set in... And checked into our lodge right on the edge of the lake and grabbed some more local food (Priyanka again settled for local beer!), already looking forward to our 2-day cruise through the Doubtful Sound starting the next morning.
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| Along the west coast - South Island, NZ |
Bhai - The challan looks like a warrant! u sure u only paid a fine and walked off :p
ReplyDeletebeautiful backdrop on the lodge :D