Tuesday 31 March 2015

Day Eight - from Lake Tekapo to Oamaru

I’m starting to get way behind doing the blog as you can see, not enough hours in the day! Having too much fun to be sitting at the computer for too long and wifi is very intermittent. These photo’s are my favourites so far, prepare to be absolutely gobsmacked!

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Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo

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Mt Cook

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It only took three goes with the camera timer, 10 seconds is not enough time to scramble over rocks at my age!

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The view from the Hermitage Hotel

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What looks like snow is actually a tiny spongy spreading plant all over the tundra.

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Lake Pukaki

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Dry river bed, we passed dozens of these, it’s been a dry summer down this way.

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A mini white cliffs of Dover!

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Lake Aviemore

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The Benmore Dam, we weren’t able to stop right at the top because the carpark was taken up with a filming crew, we were hoping to bump into Robert Redford but no luck there, bad luck for him!

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The sheep that got away! I don’t think I’ve ever seen brown sheep before, there are heaps of them down here, all shades of brown and some with white faces.

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The St Martin’s church at Duntroon, built 1901.

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and the Duntroon pub.

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The Papakaio Presbyterian Church, built 1893.

Today we are leaving Invercargill and heading for Manapouri and Lake Te Anau.

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