Te Anau and Doubtful Sound 23rd - 24th January |
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The Wilderness Scientific Reserve between Te Anau and Queenstown. Apparently this is how the landscape would have looked 1,000 years ago. |
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The Takitimu Mountains | |
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View across Lake Te Anau | |
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Lake Te Anau at sunset | |
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The machine hall of the West Arm Hydro-electric power station capturing the power of the water as it flows from Lake Te Anau to Lake Manapouri and in doing so generating 20% (yes twenty percent) of New Zealand's requirement for electricity. We visited here on our way to Doubtful Sound which entails a boat ride (45min) across Lake Manapouri, a bus ride (40min) across Wilmot Pass and then finally you arrive at Deep Cove which becomes Doubtful Sound as you head towards the ocean. | |
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Deep Cove and Doubtful Sound from Wilmot Pass. | |
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A waterfall (nothing like stating the obvious!) | |
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The scenery was beautiful although apparently it is more stunning in the rain. | |
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The steep sides of the Fjord - Doubtful Sound is in fact a Fjord rather than a Sound. | |
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A seal (spotted by eagle-eye Wendy from a distance) | |
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