Hello friends and family,
Sorry it’s taken so long to get our free travel blog out (which seems like forever ago now…) but it is finally here!
After spending two magnificant days in Queenstown exploring the city and eating delicious Fergbergers and Fish &Chips;, the group decided to venture out on two different free travel options.
Part of the group- MoMo and the minors (aka Simone, Samira, and Gabe)-decided to rent a camper van and drive around exploring NZ. They ended up at Milford Sound and went kayaking. Highlight of their trip? Seeing Penguins!
The other halfish of the group went out to the Caples Track on a three day hiking adventure. When the driver picked us all up to take us to the trail head, none of us quite knew what we were getting ourselves into. The first day went by without too many incidents. It took us about seven hours to reach our first hut, where we met Dan, the man, a fellow tramper. The night was cold and the girls shared girl talk while the boys played cards as usual with Dan.
Now on to the second day….
Which was different than the first…
In the morning, Tate Beers and Ross, weren’t quite feeling up to par. But they persevered through the nine hours of grueling hiking only to see the top of the saddle for 5 minutes because it was too cold to stay up there. Mike suffered through the cold after falling into the water up to his waist on more than one occasion. The rest of the group was out of breath most of the time after hiking some of the most trecherous domain that any of us have ever seen. The hut could not come soon enough.
Though it sounds like we all dispised what we were doing, have no fear we were troopers and really did love every minute.
The last day was a shorter hike to the bus stop where we waited, waited, and waited a wee bit more for the ridiculous tourist bus to pick us up and take us to Milford Sound. We basically made the entire bus smell and they did not appreciate our tramping-selves on their bus. After a cruise on Milford Sound through some of the most beautiful water scenery there is on this planet (including dolphins, waterfalls galore, rainbows, and seals), we returned back to Queenstown to meet up with the rest of our group.
Overall free travel was AWESOME.
Made possible by Gabe (we cannot pronounce his last name), who worked effortlessly in planning this free travel for everyone.
Love and Hugs to family and friends back home!
Miss you and love you!
FANZ
