Seth’s World View

Te Anau is the gateway city to Fiordland, and is quite scenic itself, with Lake Te Anau nearby and lots of mountains in the background. I planned to stay three days there, and ended up extending it to five when I realized that housing in Queenstown would be hard to find (it’s ski season). After relaxing my first night at the YHA, I started the next day in search of a point-and-shoot zoom camera, which would be a compromise, as the quality wouldn’t suit my remaining slide film as well, but I couldn’t afford an SLR replacement. There weren’t too many options in town, and I checked out both of them. In the end, Te Anau Pharmacy won out. They had a few point-and-shoot, none of which impressed me too much, especially for the price, plus the fact that I didn’t really want them. It turned out they had a few, well, three SLR cameras in stock, one digital and two film. Well, they wanted to sell the display model, and I ended up buying it, saving myself a few hundred dollars. It cost more than it would in the US, as is the case with all electronics here, but, I got the kind of camera I wanted. The only negative is that it acquired some dust from being a display model.

rnrnI enjoyed my stay at the YHA. The next day I ventured out for 6 hours on the Kepler Track, which would take 3-4 days if I hiked it in full. Relaxed the next day, which included watching a movie or two. The last day I decided I needed to get out, and booked a cruise for Doubtful Sound.