Feeling like being a bit touristy again for a while we hit the road from Queenstown towards Mount Cook. We thought it had been pretty cold the night before. That was confirmed by the fact that three centimetres of fresh snow had fallen on the higher mountains overnight. That’s quite unusual for the middle of February here, which is supposed to be a very hot month! It did make the views impressive though as we drove through the freshly snow dusted mountains towards Mount Cook. Mount Cook itself was beautiful surrounded by the other impressive mountains in the range.
We headed on from there and stayed in a really good campsite in Fairlie for the night – the Top 10 campsite, I’d highly recommend it! After a good nights sleep (not quite so cold this time) we drove on to Christchurch and found the two paddling shops that there are there, finally managing to stock up on airbags and various other things for paddling.
By that stage, JP and Liz had arrived in Murchison so we went back there to join them, with Alan and Aisling arriving later in the week. Over the next few days we had some runs on the Doctors Creek and Granity Creek sections of the Buller River, both pretty easy but really nice runs. All the paddling caught up with us by the end of the week resulting in Sean and I spending a day at the campsite nursing our colds after waving goodbye to the other Irish as they headed towards Auckland airport and home.
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