April 11 We managed to leave the South Island just before a major storm hit, dumping copious amounts of rain and clocking in 50 mph winds. Okārito completely flooded, where we had stayed four nights. And that road we drove several times between Fox Glacier and the town of Franz Joseph — completely under water. …
April 10 We awoke to still no power. No electricity and no water. We brushed our teeth with kettle water and ventured outside to chat with our host Gaye to get the update on the power failure. She said Vector, our Xcel equivalent, was continuing to work on the fault and that power should be …
April 9 Up early, we went to Bobby Franks one last time for breakfast before we headed to the airport for our flight to Auckland. The Nelson airport is teeny tiny. I like teeny tiny airports because they are no fuss and usually not crowded. An interesting thing happened in the Nelson airport after we …
