Te Anau

On the 18th day of our honeymoon, we went to Te Anau. Since we got there in the afternoon, we missed the Milford Sound cruises for the day. Instead, we booked the Milford Sound cruise for the next day, a glow worm cave tour for that day, and an overnight Doubtful Sound tour (we were happy it was off season).

Since the glow worm tour didn't leave for a few hours, we decided to go hiking around the area a bit. There was the beginning track to a multi-day hike so off we went, but only for about an hour in and then turned around. As with the other hikes, it was quite picturesque.

At 7:00 PM, we headed off in a boat across Lake Te Anau to the cave. It even had an underground waterfall! Unfortunately, pictures weren't allowed because supposedly they disturb the glow worms. Even though we couldn't take pictures, it was an impressive tour and I'd highly recommend it. We got into a small boat with about 10 people in the dark and then our tour guide and as our eyes adjusted to the dark, we could almost see the sides of the caves. More often, I felt the presence of cave walls. It was kind of eery but really cool.

The tour got done about 9:00 PM and we hadn't had dinner yet. We saw a "roach coach" selling burgers and such but thought that we could do better. Wrong. Everything was closed! So, we headed back to the mobile burger mobile and happened to get pretty darn tasty burgers, even though they had beets. Yep, beets on burgers. Oh, I ate grilled chicken, not a burger.