Hike over the pass, lunch at lake Brunner and walk along the shore of this temperate rain forest. Water taxi across the lake and a night at Punakaiki resort.

Green stone walk, same path taken by Mauri for their jade. Then came the real gold rush.

Good walks before lunch but the highlight was the keas. Flying soaring destroying the vans. One pulled off the aerial whole we watched. On further examination it unscrewed the aerial, we were able to reattach.

Good shot of QB chatting with two keas. Some really excellent shots of keas are too be found on our flickr site.

After a walk about the lake, a moss filled forest, many ferns and plants not seen at home, a jet taxi ride across the five km lake to a night facing the Tasman sea. Aussie land is 1500 miles away.