Arrowtown and Lowburn.

Roaring Meg power station in the Kawarau Gorge.

Old cottage in Arrowtown.

Autumnal colours starting to appear on the tree’s.

Arrowtown’s old Police station.

A long drop dunny in the remains of a Chinese mining settlement.

Chinese store and bank in Arrowtown’s Chinese mining settlement.

Chinese miners home from home in the Central Otago gold fields.

Another Chinaman’s home and store on the hill beyond.

Stone wall reminiscent of walls in the North of England.

Lolly shop in the centre of Arrowtown reminding me of the Sweet shop in my old home town in the UK.

Parked up at Lowburn near Cromwell. What a wonderful spot.

Lumsden.

Leaving Te Anau and Lake Manapouri after a beautiful day we headed for Lumsden for the night.

Another Central Otago Railway Station cut off by the Clyde Dam.

The station is now the site for back packers and the like who sleep in cars and vans. Apparently it deters the vandals so the local’s encourage the tourists.

A Drewery Diesel Shunter with some old goods wagons. How long before they rust away to nothing?

A huge piece of machinery posing as a load.

Another Drewery loco with an1896 “A” class carriage awaiting restoration.

The railway water tower for the old steam loco’s.

A last remaining memory of the train that used to run through here.

Sunset over Lumsden from the NZMCA site.

Manapouri and Te Anau.

Low cloud over lake Manapouri.

A worn out impellor from one of the turbines. Amazing what water damage can do.

The same (Autotrails) but different (models) Tracker on the left Savannah on the right.

Novel use of an old bath tub.

Quintin Mackinnon 1851-92 was the early explorer along with friend Mitchell who found the Te Anau to Milford Sound track now known as the Milford Track.

Quiet reflections. Eat your heart out Tony!

Could not be any simpler than this no matter what language you speak.

Clifden Suspension Bridge at Tuatapere.

Not the famous Brunel Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol in the United Kingdom, but New Zealand style. We freedom parked here with several others.

This used to be the main highway originally but now a cycle/walkway.

Once a single lane roadway.

The bridge has recently been restored with new timber and metal work.

Fascinating rock formation.

Rock formation even in the river bed.

A credit to the original builders that it’s still in use.

  Here comes Elizabeth.

This lovely  old Country church was saved by a local florist. Now used as his storeroom. He grows Gentians which grow very well in the cooler climate. Once all grown for the export market it now all stays in NZ.

Invercargill

You have to be in the know about this park over property because they don’t advertise.

Powered sites overlooking the race track.

Bill Richardson’s Transport World. Invercargill. You must visit this and Bill’s Motorcycle collection if you are in Invercargill.

World class display of truck’s, ute’s, and cars.

Most of the vehicles had a full history of ownership except those imported from overseas, even a rare old one like this.

This magnificent restoration was used in America as shown. It then became a water carrier until it was left to rust away in a shed. Bill imported it and took 4 years to restore it. The American’s came knocking with an open cheque book to buy it back only to be told it’s NOT FOR SALE.

Parked up for lunch at Monkey Island on a beautiful still day.

Monkey Island. You can walk out there at low tide.

The beach at Monkey Island on the southern coast.  We could see why the place was so popular with the campers on a glorious day.

Fortrose and Niagra Falls

Niagra Falls NZ really a play on words, not even worth a photo.

The NZMCA park looked a bit better than when we had been here 5 years ago.  A new meeting room had been built with a walking track in the bush behind. 

Leaving in the morning we headed for Slope and Waipapa Points.  The road to Slope was so bad we gave it a miss.  The road to Waipapa was also bad but only 5 kms but very very corrugated and Gypsy Rover was not impressed.  Neither were we. We managed to view a three sea lions on the beach having play fights before having lunch and heading to Fortrose to spend the night freedom parking. Sorry no photos of the sea lions, flat battery in the camera.

Parked up at Fortrose head into the strong winds.

Lovely views across the inlet.

Looking South.

Looking north.

Next stop Ascot Park in Invercargill.

Curio Bay in the Catlins

View from Florence Hill lookout heading for Curio Bay.

We had arranged our arrival at Curio Bay to view the penguins arriving home for the night. They come home after a busy day fishing around dusk. 

Tide going out at Curio Bay.

Looks calm enough!

Interesting backdrops to Curio Bay Beach.

After a couple of hours and freezing temperatures we decided to give the game away.  Luckily we had managed to view the penguins on an earlier visit in 2012.

The seas were steadily getting stronger.

Time to give up we thought, what a shame, we were frozen to the bone.

We headed off to the NZMCA property at Niagara Falls for the night after a meal of freshly caught blue cod and chips.