Today we drove down to Te Anau, passing into yet another temperate zone of New Zealand, with much drier conditions. We’re in an interior valley, and all the rain is blocked by the high mountain ranges on either side. We’re finally starting to see the true prevalence of sheep – the drier, steeper conditions mean that we’re seeing thousands and thousands of sheep, but very few cows. All of the travel has caught up with us a bit and we’re feeling under the weather, so we’re taking this afternoon and tomorrow off to recover. That sadly means we won’t be going down to Milford Sound like we’d planned, but it’s obviously more important to rest up and feel better. We did manage to swim in Lake Te Anau though, jumping off a 5 meter high pier down into the frigid waters.
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