Day 12

Te Anau, Manapouri to Otautau. In the morning, Keith developed photos - took a while. I walked along the shore of the lake and played in the playground with Zee. We drove through to Manapouri which wasn't much but we did turn off to head south, so may have missed something. The drive from there down to Otautau was lovely - small rolling green hills dotted with trees and sheep. It looked like the Shire (Hobbiton) in the afternoon sunlight.

We stopped to photograph a particularly eye-catching hill, tree and sheep scene.

Getting into Otautau around 4pm, we rang Diane and Clive only to be told they weren't ready for us and were still tidying house. We played with Zee in a local playground until Clive pulled up, then we were off to Chez Rankin and a garden full of toys for little boys to play with. Heaven for Zack.