The wind wasn’t really blowing, so I guess I should have used winding road or a twisty, turvy road.. No wonder English is a hard language. The Māori only have about 5 vowel sounds. It sometimes seems much easier, but then again…. I haven’t mastered the ng sound.
Dear Rachel picked us up in a van she had to rent. The reason the other van went kaput? The alternator quit but the belt did not and it shredded. Thank goodness we were in a safe place. Thank goodness she could call and get another car to take us to Franz Josef. Thank goodness, thank goodness!
The ride out of Franz Josef was quite lovely. We stayed in the rain forest for a while. We visited a beach, a waterfall, a little restaurant where we ate white bait sandwiches, we left the rain forest, we stopped and I found a toilet that sends water around the and we drove down a twisty, turny road. Before we started down the long and windy road, we stopped at the summit, took a photo, and left a trail marker.
I felt our lunch at Hard Antler Bar and Restaurant deserved its own pictures, separate from the day’s journey photos.
We had a last rest stop before the curvy road. At least I think we did. The pictures have kind of run together….
Driving into Queenstown on the Crown Range Road, we did stop at the summit.
Here we go….
Once we got checked into our hotel, which is really an apartment with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and up a very steep hill, Gammy, Dotty, and I walked down to the 4 square for a couple of things for dinner. We found marinated lamb chops and Jim cooked them on the community grill in the courtyard.
After dinner, we had 6 rousing hands of Rummikub before heading to bed.
Decades ago, before canned cat food, my mother cooked white bait for Toby the cat. Sorry but that was my first thought when I read of that meal.
Poor Toby the Cat!