Today we said goodbye to Queenstown and left on the 9am bus to Lake Tekapo. After 45 minutes we stopped at Cromwell. There was a bakery and a cafe there amongst other things. We only stopped for 20 minutes and then we drove for around 2 hours to a place called Twizel to do a supermarket stop. The drive took us through the Lindis Pass. It was a very scenic drive.
We also stopped at Lake Pukaki. The lake is the most beautiful blue colour, due to glacial flour. It was such a stunning spot to stop for a picnic lunch, with snow covered mountains in the background.
We got to Lake Tekapo around 1pm and checked into the backpackers lodge part of a holiday park. The Lake Tekapo village itself is very small and is about a 15 mine walk away from the lodge. But the lodge is right on the lake front which is pretty cool. The lake is beautiful and is surrounded by mountains, but after lake pukaki it's probably not the best lake I've seen today. But it is beautiful. The water is really clear and it was sunny again today so everything looked fab. There was also a wall of white cloud creeping in between the hills around the lake which looked kind of awesome. It almost looked like a really slow moving snow avalanche.
We spent the afternoon sitting on the stoney lakefront area and paddling our feet. It was very relaxing. We cooked dinner around half 6 and then hung around our tiny room we're sharing with 2 others waiting for it to get dark as the night sky was meant to be amazing as we are in a sky reserve area which means there shouldn't be any light pollution.
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The stars were amazing. We went out about half ten and they were impressive.
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