Happy to escape Queenstown, a 5 hour trip over the Southern Alps to the west coast at Haast and up to Fox Glacier took me 9 hours.
All because of the attractions and distractions along the way.
The first section of the journey was up over the Crown Range Pass, a series of 20 or so 15 kph switchbacks up to Cardrona. 
The scenery was stunning, none more so than the “speckled” fields as the snow melts: 
An hour or more was spent at Wanaka at an incredible attraction called Puzzling World.
This has a maze and amazing rooms full of incredible illusions optical and gravity distorting effects.
This simple puzzle conveys the spirit of the place:
From Wanaka to Haast was more incredible alpine scenery, rivers, waterfalls and bends until, finally, you come around a bend and there are no mountains ahead of you.
This shot was taken at Erewhon, looking back at the area I had come through, 100 metres from the beach.
The celtic font used on this sign gives a clue that it was probably a dyslexic Irish man who came up with the Maori looking name.
Is it meant to be nowhere sdrawkcab?
After a further 120km Fox Glacier was reached around 4pm.
The forecast is for 3 days of rain.
[There’s 6 animals in the picture]
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