We'll be back I hope. Tick the bungy off our list too.
Anyway, no point in dwelling on it. We passed through the Waitaki district.
And passed the wonderfully blue and glacier fed Lake Pukaki, which has since been turned into a hydro-electricity source and damn. The man made canal that runs to nearby power stations can be seen to have lots of white water when there are a lot of people using their hair dryers and phone chargers. The water is so blue, it's quite hard to capture in a photo.
Then we pulled into our accommodation for tonight where Kamal and I have a romantic lakefront cottage just for the two of us at Lake Tekapo.
Lake Tekapo is almost as blue as Pukaki and is known for its two observatories where you could pay $140 EACH to see the stars through their telescopes. Whilst pondering over whether it was worth it or not we decided to climb Mount John to get a better look at the ground below before we made decision on the skies. I even donned my most stylish outfit.
It took us about 90mins to climb and get back to the cottage. But my God, my knees are like an eighty year old's!
We got to see some nice woodland as it approached sunset too.
The view from the top was great - even if both of us were puffing like we'd never walked before.
On our climb down I hurt my knee so ended up limping as well as puffing. Sorry sight! We walked across the beach where the plants still had fresh droplets untouched on their leaves.
It got cold pretty quickly but it was soon sorted out by a shower, hot dinner and a glass of wine in our cottage, before heading out to stargaze. We opted not to pay the $280 for the observatory and instead stayed out snuggled under a towel in about seven layers of clothes on the beach for a good hour or so. I picked out three shooting stars before we took a starlit stroll into town to buy bottles of drink as we realised we'd run out of water. On the way back, I saw the most stunning shooting star of all, right across the sky. A good way to end a shivery stroll AND we're richer for it too.
A quick play in the park and Kat was a happy bunny. We even saw some bunnies!!
We went back inside to watch TV and spend some quality time together before falling asleep in all my many layers of clothing and waking up in the middle of the night realising that the toilet was outside in the cold. Brrrrrr. But Ahhhh sleep never felt better.
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