Queenstown to Te Anau

We grabbed a car and left Queenstown by mid morning.  Our first stop was breakfast and for this we headed to Arrowtown.  We had seen a advert on TV for this French cafe Bon Jour and they served crepes!

We also brought some fresh French bread and cheese for lunch on the go... 

Arrowtown was really very sweet.  It is small and is only about 20 minutes from Queenstown so there is a lot of commuting people that live here. It was touristy but in a really nice, cute way.

The wonderful J and I found loads of things that we could have easily taken home but this one: the Spitfire chair we will be sourcing as soon as we get home - we are in love.

From Arrowtown we traveled through amazing countryside following the edge of a big lake.  The low cloud was slowly burning off, and it was an impressive sight.

There are so many Deer farms in this area - they out number the sheep!

We then hit the countryside and this is just beautiful.  The country kept getting greener and more beautiful as we headed down the island. And the sky got bluer!

It was in a place called Athos that we got our first NZ ice cream.  We have been here over a week and this is our first! This is unheard of for me as I have been known to just skip the meal and have the ice cream instead, but it was worth the wait.

Yes these are single cones!

Te Anau was a bit of surprise - it is a relatively dead town really and bizarrely had five Italian restaurants! However it sits on the edge of a very large and beautiful lake.

We finished off our day with a trip out to see the Glow Worm caves.  This is a trip in a boat across Lake Te Anau and then a walk and a boat ride to the underground grotto.   

These are not our photos as we couldn't take any photos (photos from google images), but it will give you an idea of what it was like.  It was an  amazing sight to see......