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THE SUNNY sky of yesterday was covered in clouds, with rain falling on the mountaintops and the valleys hidden in the park. Fortunately the rain didn't reach Lake Te Anau.
I joined a small tour group taking a boat out across the lake into South Fiord. There we explored the islands and waters of the glacially carved freshwater fiord between the Murchison Mountains (the home of the takahe) and the Jackson Peaks where the Kepler Track goes over.
At one point we stopped at a remote jetty where to our surpise two kea came onto the boat having a go at the aerial. They are very rarely found this low. We headed into the bush along a little known track eventually reaching one of the hidden lakes nestled in the forested hills at the mouth of the fiord.
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