Our last day in New Zealand

Up a little later and some leisurely packing enabled us to leave our room and pack up the car before 10:00.  We went for a lakeside walk in beautiful sunshine and returned to pick up the car and go for a short drive to use up the last of our petrol.
We reached Edith Cavell bridge over the shotover creek another wonderful location, where we had coffee and a very hot chocolate and strawberry muffin.
We watched the jetboats skimming up and down the creek.

We reached Queenstown airport with less than 10km of fuel left and then negotiated with hertz over the stone chip which had cracked the windscreen; we will need to claim on our excess insurance policy.  The helpful Air New Zealand checkin clerk booked our luggage all the way to hong Kong, so we were able to relax  in the lounge (for five hours) when we reached Auckland.
The journey from Queenstown passed over some of the most scenic mountain landscape, showing parts we could never reach!
 We had a shower before boarding the plane for Hong Kong. The  usual pre flight drinks and perusing yet another menu (so far they have all been different) and we even managed to have some Cloudy Bay with our Snapper!
It was candle-lit breakfast for two on the plane, as Peter sat opposite Alison on her "ottoman", cum leg rest.
We were relieved to see that our luggage had arrived and even though we checked in at our hotel at 7:00 am, they managed to find us a room!