Invercargill - Day 1

[david63]

Another fairly liesurly drive down to Invercargill - furthest town in South Island. This is not the furthest south that you can go in New Zealand as that would be in New Zealand's third island Stewart Island which is not somewhere we were going to.

Invercargill was a total surprise (in a good way) as it was nothing like we were expecting and nothing like anywhere we had been to in New Zealand. In some respects it resembles the likes of Florida with wide, muti lane roads. The other surprise was the "old" buildings that were so full of character.

Having got settled in our motel, stocked up on supplies only to find that supermarkets in Invercargill are not allowed to sell alcohol!! - there appears to be some kind of cartel in operation whereby you can only buy alcohol from a "bottle shop" alledgedly in an attempt to curb alcohol abuse. Anyway in our continuing mission to support the New Zealand wine industry we managed to find one and replenish our supplies.

Important matters sorted we set off on a walk around the town and came across Queen's Gardens which were bequeathed to the towm some years back and are the best "formal" gardens that I have ever seen.




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[Ray B]

One must always get ones priorities sorted first.