When we arrived in Invercargill, we booked into a really nice motel about 5 blocks from the centre, and it was getting late, but the roads were clear...Good sign!









After dropping our bags off we drove into the centre to explore.....this is the main street.

We Liked it even better.










This is the rush hour traffic..... :-)


we spotted a sign saying Oreti Beach........well you know I like my beaches so we went to have a look before it got dark..............











YES! Invercargill got a big thumbs up from me, we drove through Sandy Point reserve which is huge and full of woodland and walks etc...more on that later, but we drove onto the beach and the views were spectacular.....the mist from the sea and the pink skys were so much more vivid than the picture shows.




I think Rob likes it too.........so we are going to explore and look at rentals.