Day 16 - Lake Tekapo

Today we left Queenstown and went out on a limb and decided to stay somewhere that wasn’t directly recommended to stay at. We drove through some incredible scenery and arrived at a place called Twizel. Twizel is the main area for Hydro Power Production In New Zealand and most of it’s lakes are part man made along with the canals that connect them all. It’s a very clever system that allows them to pump water from one lake to another to satisfy the need for power. I have never seen such beautiful water in my life, they are glacial lakes and for a reason untold to me they have remained the same blue colour you’d expect from a glacier. We do know this as we have climbed one ;) Looking back at the pictures its difficult to distinguish the sky from the lake. Mount Cook makes an appearance in the hazy sky too. I loved this place. It had the feeling that it was all man made and everything was perfect, but of course most of it was natural. It just had that feeling of being new. A difficult feeling to get across. Look at the photos they explain everything.

We arrived at Lake Tekapo to a gorgeous afternoon of hot sun and a partially cloudless sky. They did say that this area of the country has the least amount of clouds in the sky. There we only a few of those expedia clouds from the old adverts. We checked into possibly the cleanest hostel we'd been at so far. We made the most of our free afternoon and lazed on the black sand byt the lake. Now Black sand and hot sun makes for a very hot walk to the water. The water too was freezing. I know it's a glacial lake but surely it could have warmed up by now.

Lake Tekapo is supposed to be one of the best places ever for looking at stars because it is out in the middle of nowhere and barely gets clouds. Unfortunately we had a full moon, but the stars will still beautiful....what we could see anyways. We had a great afternoon relaxing and went out for some chips at night to see the stars. We took some photos of us playing on the swings, i forgot how fun it was but i made myself feeel noutious. I have never seen such an amazing sunset away from the sea before, there are photos of it somewhere on facebook go see.

Heading to Christchurch tomorrow, another 4 hour bus trek. Fun Fun Fun.

Kia Ora

David & Holly

Maori Roast - Takeaway Fish and Chips
Are we having a nice wholesome nutricious meal tonight?
Yup, a Maori Roast