After travelling for about 2 weeks, we're getting a little tired, so we've stopped for a bit of rest in Wanaka, on the South Island. This is on a lovely lake and is where locals come for vacay. We're staying at a little motel that has a trampoline for free use of the guests, and is located right next to the most awesome little cinema you've ever seen! You can watch movies from a VW bug, or on old lazyboys. One of the photos below is a large paper mache sheep standing on the roof of the cinema for the home grown NZ Black Sheep movie, which we are going to go see tonight.
Over the past few days we drove down the west coast, getting bit by sand flies and checking out glaciers and the Southern Alps Mountain range, though it was a bit rainy most of the time so our view of the peaks was a bit obscured. It is clearing today though, so hopefully tomorrow we will have a lovely scenic drive.
We went for a walk along a never ending trail through rainforest (and over a dodgy bridge) to penguin habitat, only to learn that the Fjiordland Crested penguins that nest there leave in early March to parts unknown, not to return until July. Oh well. Was a lovely walk and we met some of the cheekiest forest robins and fantails! 
We're making our way back to Christchurch over the next two days. JoAnna would really like to pet a sheep before we leave, so that is our goal for tomorrow.
Cheers,
- Bill (and JoAnna)
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