Through New-Zealand landscape

Apres les Fiordland, nous nous dirigeons vers La West Coast en passant par les Alps neo-zelandaises.

Un p'tit clin d'oeil pour toi ma poule.

Vue sur le lac Wakatipu.

Sympa le spot pause dejeuner.

Ici, nous avons ete proprietaires de deux chiens pendant une demi heure.

Wanaka et son lac

Lac Hawea.

La route nous faisait zigzaguer entre deux lacs : lac Wanaka et lac Hawea.

Ci dessous, le lac Wanaka.

Au petit matin, le thermometre designait un petit zero.

La plage de Haast Spit.

Le long de la cote ouest.

Le chemin qui mene a Monro beach.

Pour le Papou de Julie, le plus gros narbre de la Nouvelle Zelande : le Kahikatea.

Une Fan Tail (Queue d'eventail?).

C'est sur cette plage que l'on peut voir des penguins (yellow-eyed penguins), mais nous n'avons pas eu de chance! Peut etre etions nous un peu en avance dans la saison des amours...

Ceci dit, cette plage etait magnifique et nous a offert un tres beau couche de soleil.

Un peu plus loin, des cygnes noirs se pavanaient sur un lac.

Doubtful Sound

Doubtful Sounds are located in the Fiordland National Park in the south of the South Island. It is a very rainy part of the country but we left with the sunshine.

Lords Of The Ring's fanatics will surely recognise this beautiful landscape.

The first part of the journey was going through Lake Manapouri.

At the other side of the Lake, we visited a hydro power station.

Manapouri is the largest hydro power station in New Zealand.

A Kea. They are the only perrots being able to live in the mountains. They are nasty birds that can rip your windscreen, steal your food...

It's an underground power station, with its generating units housed in a cavern excavated from rock 200 metres below the surface of Lake Manapouri.

No those are not silver. The silver fern is the symbole of New Zealand. They cannot grow in the fiordland. We'll show you some later.

The second part of the trip brought us in the Sound itself.

Doubtful Sound was named 'Doubtful Harbour' in 1770 by Captain Cook, who did not enter the inlet as he was uncertain whether it was navigable under sail.

Even though the weather was not nice, we really enjoyed the experience as it made the athmosphere really mystic. We almost had the feeling we were explorers discovering this place for the first time...

At the mouth of the fjord, fur seals like to rest.

Believe it or not, but this house in the middle of nowhere use to be a hotel.

The water running down the hills is very pure and good to drink.