Milford to Invercargill

Late Friday night on November 21st, Kel, Zack, and I rolled into the big city of Invercargill. Kerrie, Mel, and Jayne had gone back to Queenstown to return their rental car and jump back on their tour bus. This is when we realized we probably should have chosen a place to stay much earlier as it was already half past ten and most places had already locked their doors for the night. After driving around and checking almost every hostel in town we finally found a place to crash. The woman was still around luckily and had a few spare beds for us to lay out on. We just spent that night looking in amazement at our photos of Milford Sound and the drive from there to Invercargill. The drive was actually pretty cool and I’m glad that we did it a little later in the evening because we got to see New Zealand’s most southerly point right near sunset. We also visited an old light house which wasn’t quite the attraction Lonely Planet made it out to be and a fossilized forest down by the ocean that is apparently over 100 million years old. You could still see the fallen trees. We also saw a sea lion and a penguin there. Often in New Zealand I find the drives just as enjoyable as arriving at our destination.