Winter Is Coming!!

Things are going well! Everything is falling into place before winter. 

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The Routeburn Track

Last weekend I hiked the Routeburn Track on a date. The Routeburn Track is one of the Great Walks in New Zealand. There are eight of them and the Kepler Track I did with my dad is one as well. The most popular is probably the Milford Track.

Road Trip To The Catlins!!

Manon and I were lucky enough to get the same days off work last week so we decided to go on a adventure! We took a road trip down to the Catlins which is about 3 hours from Queenstown. The Catlins is a region on the south-eastern bottom corner of the south island of New Zealand.We had great weather for the trip which was so nice because its been raining a lot lately. The first day we started at the eastern edge of the Catlins and moved west towards the hostel we booked the night before. There is a lot to see in the catlins and it can be pretty spread out. We drove on a lot dirt roads but they are very well maintained.

The first place we went was Nugget Point Lighthouse.

Nugget point lighthouse 

Nuggets. View from the lighthouse

We are quite  good at talking sexy windy selfies 

Next we went a beach to see some sea lions. Sea lions are big and weird looking. They can walk on all fours and have creepy powerful necks. I thought they were creepy and Manon decided a sea lion is her spirit animal.

Sea lions

Lake Wilkie 

Next we stopped at Lake Wilkie. A sign said it was a 30 return walk to the lake. Turns out it was only a 5 minute walk. This became a pattern, every sign would over estimate the time of the walk about at least 20 minutes.
We got to our hostel just in time to for the sunset. Our hostel was right on the beach so we were able to go for a quick walk on the beach before we made dinner.

View from our hostel

We are great at taking selfies

The beach :)

The next morning we woke up early to head to the McLean Falls. The falls were so beautiful and we were there early so we were able to enjoy them alone. A Canadian girl was also staying at our hostel. She has been traveling in New Zealand  mostly be hitch hiking. She tagged along with us to the falls. 

McLean Falls

Falls 

After the falls we killed some time by seeing a couple other sights while we waiting for low tide to see the Catherdal Caves. 

Killing time

Marsh... All those little dots are snails! 

The Catherdal Caves are only open at low tide because the water is too high. 

The caves

Afterwards we ate lunch and our Canadian friend hitched a ride to nugget point with some people that were going in that direction. We headed off in the other direction toward home and Slope Point, which is the most southernly point in New Zealand. 

Manon--loving it

A-mazing 

Look at that view 

It was pretty cloudy and foggy at the Slope Point and we couldn't really see much. We had to walk through a weird farm to get there and drive on a dirt road for 20 minutes. It was underwhelming. It wasn't an especially beautiful.