Given that we still had a bit of jet lag we had a relaxing day by the pool at the hotel. Although Spark had configured our phones,  the phone with the replacement physical Sim was not working so we spent an hour or so with Spark technical support trying to fix it. In the end, we went to a local Spark shop where the guy identified the APN config being wrong (it should have been set to ‘internet’) and then after a reboot the phone was fine. Throughout our trip, Spark worked fine, albeit in Fjordland there was little connectivity though I suspect this is the same for all network providers. 30GB for 4 weeks on each phone was fine for us.

Our hotel was close to The Botanical Gardens so we took a stroll through the area and around the city and heard the various stories from the locals about the enormous ML6.2 earthquake they had there in 2011. There are still noticeable empty areas where building once stood.

The Global Buskers Festival was coming to a close but we had some great street entertainment along the way.