Pony trekking, or as the horses say "Not Again!"

We left Winton and drove to Dunedin (which is Scots Gaelic for Edinburgh!) Dunedin was quite beautiful, and extremely steep! After checking the guide book we were not sure we could find a place to go pony trekking. We found a place which looked excellent, we met our guide Cheryl who was as mad as a hatter but was so lovely.

Lorna got a horse called Trolley, who was about 16 years old and about 14 hands high, I got a horse called Ginger, who was 21 years old and about 16 hands high (you could say I looked up to him!)

So we had a brief instruction on getting on and off the horses etc, we then set off to the beach with our horses, Cheryl and Tigger the dog. To be honest, the horses knew exactly what they were doing and were they had to go so they did not require much directing.

On the beach we saw a Sea lion lying in the sand, he was a massive guy, bigger than I expected. He did not really move other than to keep a beady eye on us. We also saw a Fur seal which was cute, just as the horses passed what looked like a log on the beach, it reared up and yawned. It really did look just like Amy!!

We finished up with the horses and then drove to Omaru, but we did not reach it time to visit the penguins. So we just stayed overnight and go ready to hand the van back the following day.

Ever See a Cow Bungy Jump

Ever see a cow bungy jump? (how do you think milk shakes are made!)

After leaving Fox we decided to head to either Wanaka or Queenstown (depending on our timing.) We made good time and got to Wanaka by lunchtime, again in keeping with our luck this holiday we found an excellent place to eat (again with the portion control). We found a place called Puzzle world, which to be honest was a bit disappointing, but I did get to help out and hold up a building which they were renovating!



The place had lots of optical illusions, which were reasonably cool, but they could have put a bit more effort into it.

After leaving Wanaka and more driving we arrived in Queenstown, it looked like a lively place. Well they did invent modern bungy jumping, but I could not understand why people in such a beautiful place acted like lemmings and threw themselves off bridges (even if they had elastic tied to them)

We had planned to go pony trekking in Glenorchy, but after completing a long drive down from Fox we decided that we would just like a day mooching around the shops. So we spent the day mooching around Queenstown, shopping and generally eating and drinking coffee in nice eateries.

We moved from Queenstown to Winton to stay with Dave and Jo (who we met in Rarotonga). Dave and Jo have a dairy farm with 1000 cows (mooooo!), they have three kids, Alex, Liam and Chelsea, all of whom have more energy than the Energiser bunny and run out of it just a quickly.



On Saturday Dave took us down around the south coast of NZ, and we made to the most southerly point without reaching Antarctica and bizarrely it was warmer than at home when we left!! We covered about 250-300 miles and saw lots of fantastic coast line.