We are sore.

After days of rain and driving, we have spent the last three days walking climbing hills, mountains, sand dunes, cliffs, bluffs, and more.

Take a stroller up that!

Saturday, we went on an ambitious hike: 24km beside the Twizel river. The DoC brochure showed a woman pushing a stroller, but after we walked 20km, we were sure that the picture was staged or the stroller was really 4WD because there was no way that a regular stroller would hold up to that terrain.

Just a side note: 20km is roughly 12 miles. I haven't walked 12 miles in one trek in years. It was hell, and we broke CJ on the way back. She limped the last 2-3 km with a pulled hamstring. 

Or across this!

Morning view of Mt. Cook from the RV.

Sunday we went to Mount Cook and hiked the Hooker Valley trail. It wasn't what the name implied, but it was still nice. The trail was supposed to be a 3 hour round trip. It took us six.

Part of the delay was for taking pictures (only about 850 that day), the rest was detours. We took every side path, climbed over every rock, and generally explored the valley thoroughly.

What you can't see is that we are about 300ft above the river below with wind gusts up to 40-50 mph.

Look what I found in the Hooker Valley!

Monday (today) we were in the very south of the south island in a town called Dunedin where we have walked up and down beach-side cliffs looking for seals, penguins, and sea lions with no success. I will post more on this later...

Our campsite in Dunedin.

We are exhausted and looking forward to a lazy day!!