Lake Pukaki - Lake Tekapo 🥾

After watching a gorgeous sunrise from bed, we slowly got up and prepped for our next hike... thankfully, we are somewhat rested and recovered from the last one!

Today, we were taking on the Sealy Tarns trail, which, after some research, consists of 2200 steps. Rip our legs!

We arrived, full of spirit, positivity and repeating our new life mantra... slow and steady wins the race. With that, we started the steep ascend.

After multiple stops, countless 'ouch', 'my knees', 'my legs are on fire' and each of us questioning our life decisions, we made it to the top. I spent some time taking in the views, whilst Callum made a game of throwing snow balls off the top, waiting for the sound of the snow ball hitting the ground below and then laughing... we're all different!

Thankfully, the downhill was not as painful as Roy's Peak, although we did have very shaky legs by the end! We had some lunch and then made our way to Lake Tekapo.

I'm not sure how I did it, but I managed to get Callum out for another walk down to the town. We had the delight of remaking Ben's selfie and photo from 11 years ago and brought some more stickers for Callum's bottle.

On the way back we decided to give the hot pools ago, so on go the togs! For the first time in 2 weeks, we were both warm!! The pools were beautiful, and the sunset made it even better!

We walked back to the campsite and took in the night sky as Tekapo is famous for stargazing. After so much adventure today, it wasn't long before we were both out for the count!Read more