Day Three – Bluff Oysters

We arrived in Bluff nice and early on Sunday morning. Our main purpose for visiting Bluff was to have some famous Bluff Oysters. However, we didn’t want them for breakfast, so we decided to go for a nice hike and enjoy some more amazing views of the Southern Ocean. The hike took us along Stirling Point which is the end of New Zealand’s State Highway 1.
The route runs from Cape Reinga in the north (which we visits in February) all the way south to Bluff. For our oyster lunch we stopped in a nice restaurant overlooking the sea. Jeremy had his oysters raw, while I opted for some cooked ones.
Soon after lunch we were back on the road for our drive to Queenstown. The drive is only about 2.5 hours through some beautiful farmland. After the farms, we reached Lake Wakatipu and the Remarkables Range which had a bit of snow on them. The snowfall hasn’t been great this winter, so there wasn’t as much as we had hoped for, but it was still pretty…and cold!

When we finally arrived in town, we checked into the hotel and were greeted by a Happy Birthday bottle of champagne waiting for Jeremy. This surprise was a nice gift from my colleague Petrina and her husband Simon. The rest of the night we relaxed and explored Queenstown – happy to be finished driving for a little while!