Lake Tekapo

We leave a cloudy Akaroa & drive through the rain, yes rain! Through the Canterbury plains, sheep,sheep,sheep. (Don't get excited Tim if you are reading this!) Eventually we climb up and into clear blue skies and the stunning site of a mountain range, nothing can prepare for the real life picture of this. Unfortunately you will have to wait for our pictures as we cannot upload here. We arrive in Lake Tekapo and are totally lost for words at the beauty of the place. The lake is an aquamarine colour which is cause by minerals held in suspension in the water. We go for a walk around the lake, sadly all the wild lupins that grow here have finished flowering and only the solitary one or two are still showing some colour. We try to drive up to Mount Cook as it is going to be cloudy tomorrow, cannot make it as too far. We did manage to get a glimpse of it though, still a bit of snow on the top. The summer has been so hot here there is very little vegetation for the sheep & cattle to eat every where is very brown.