Land of Rain

This is the land of rain and rain and did I mention rain? Either it always rains here or we are the bringers of rain - haven't quite decided which it is. We have seen the sun a total of 2.5 days, and that's a generous estimate.

We journeyed to TeAnau, the jumping off point to visit the famous Milford Sound as well as the gorgeous but less famous Doubtful Sound (so named, according to the story, when Captain Cook saw the opening to the sound and wrote that he was "doubtful" that the winds would be right to sail back out of the sound). The B&B we stayed at there was called Keiko’s and sure enough, the young woman who ran it was Japanese. Her husband was a kiwi so while we took our shoes off before entering any building and she had slippers available for all, the yard was again a gorgeous English garden. I think the gardens and the proliferate blooming of flowers was the only clue that it really was summer.