Our wonderful holiday is passing, only four more days before we fly home, but still lots to see and do. We have a 5 hour drive from Te Anau to Lake Tekapo we are now heading north to the centre of the south island.
Another lovely route arriving early afternoon at our resort accommodation for two nights. The apartment looks out over the lake and mountains, the lake water is an amazing turquoise blue due to the glacier flour suspended in the water. Once again our apartment has a full kitchen this time complete with dishwasher....and an upstairs bedroom with balcony.
After dinner we had to be at reception in order to be picked up for our trip up Mount John (wouldn't you know - he has a mountain named after him!). Up on the top is the observatory for the University of Canterbury and we were given an explanation of the night sky as well as the chance to look through some really good telescopes at Jupiter, Saturn, the moon (which was almost full) and the tarantular nebular. It was a really warm night, although the fullness of the moon made seeing too many stars difficult. We saw the Southern cross too. We were delivered back to our hotel by 12.30am.
Our last day in Lake Tekapo included exploring the local history and taking a hike on one of the suggested walks through the hills around the lake with rabbits for company. One thing you can be sure about in NZ is you will encounter few busy places - or fellow humans out of towns.
Tomorrow we head north up through Christchurch for our final two nights - how time fly's.
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