We had an early brekkie on board the Wanderer and sailed out to the Tasman Sea where we saw several dolphins, & lots more waterfalls. They average between 7 & 16 meters of rain in the area. That's over 500 inches of rain in some spots. Apparently most of the waterfalls dry up when it's not raining. We saw some more seals & penguins & headed for the dock. We started back & it was still raining, but not so hard. We finally saw some sunlight & a few of those mountains we had missed. After passing thru the Homer tunnel again we finally decided to try a trek on the Key Summit track. We trekked up the mountain by roaring waterfalls, moss covered trees & lots of dripping trees. It took us about 1 1/2 hrs. to make it to the top before we headed down. The valley views were awesome. We stopped at a number of pull outs including the Chasm with its roaring waters, Lake Mirror with its diving ducks & many other places for shots of the mountains & trees. A very nice ride. After checking into our room we headed to the Fat Duck Restaurant for dinner where we shared tomato & basil soup, green lipped mussels & venison kabobs. We were both tired & retired to the room. Vic wrote up the blog & Tracy blissfully snored while probably dreaming of rain, waterfalls & swigging wine in a rental car in the parking lot.
BTW, there was a sighting of the muffin today. By way of catching up right after we left Picton & Ian & Paula's the muffin snuck out of our car. We had no idea where he'd gotten off to, but we did catch up with him at the Salmon Farm Cafe several days later. He apparently had met a fresh little French croissant that he had runoff with. He said she was sweet on him & called him her "Little Stud Muffin". She eventually dunked him in a cup of hot coffee because he had called a cute donut he'd met "Honey". On his own & needing some bread to travel with he met a crusty old Bagel & they thru in together working a breakfast bar. After getting in hot water a few times & being disgusted that the Bagel was only giving him a few crumbs of their daily wages he decide to skip town & head for the Southland. We saw him in the Fat Duck where he was advertising himself as the new & improved "Muffin Man". Tracy invited him out to the car where they both swigged wine from the bottle. More later about the adventures of the "Muffin".
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