I bet you are familiar with your backyard. Te Waipounamu is mine. Should you be heading this way here's some navigational tips:
South Island weather tends to be more 'left and right' than it does up north and there's not a lot of middle as it's full of mountains!
If it's sunny down one side it's probably wet on the other - those mountains aren't called the Great Divide for nothing! Many trippers from the north (which includes the rest