January 7

I was awake at 0600 after an unsettled night. After breakfast (tea, toast, pancake), a shower and dressing, I packed, then packed the car (through the now incessant rain) and we were off by 0800.
After arriving at Fox Glacier at 0820, we went straight on because the rain was still incessant and heavy. We arrived at Haast at about 1000 and stopped briefly to go to the toilet and look around.
Then it was on through the Haast Pass, with incessant rain following us along the way. By the time we got to Wanapa the rain had stopped, so in finer weather we went through Cardrona to Queenstown. Along the way there was no rain but there was a lousy driver in front (so it was slow and tortured progress) and so we arrived in Queenstown by 1320. Here I dropped Fran at the iSite Tourist Centre to book the steamship trip on the lake. After Fran had got the tickets, we went to the motel and had our lunch. We were going to be too late for the lake trip, so I dropped Fran back at the i-Site to rebook our boat trip, then we parked and did some shopping. It was only a short walk to the ferry port, so after a short wait we went on the trip. During our trip, I had a look around the boat – there is a lot of history. We were back into the port by 1730 and we walked back to the car. We drove around to the Gondola terminal and I took the trip up and back- Fran stayed at the terminal. Neither of us went on the luge there.
After that we went to a supermarket, did more shopping and went back to the motel. Here we had tea, I processed the photos, summarised my blog and saved everything. Then we watched TV and to bed. It started to rain again!