Last day in Wanaka

Our last day here. We’ve loved being here for 10 days and it’ll be hard to say goodbye 🙁

It was an autumnal cold, brightly sunny and relaxed start. We moseyed around the town and lake again and drove round to see another lakeside perspective. Kept trying to catch some rays to warm my blood - but they were taking a while to heat up.

There was a demo marching around the streets, as we had lunch: Action on Climate Change. Turned out to be school students, supporting Greta’s Friday climate strike. Opposite ends of the globe, but with a common cause ♥️

We wandered onto the jetty, where we had a pic taken of us back in 1999, when we were young, slim and carefree! (Note to self: look for photo when we get home).

As we waited for our afternoon cruise boat to arrive, we looked down into the water, and were surprised to see a ‘swarm’ of rather large eels slinking around under the jetty, doing eely things. There were also ducks with loud quacks bossing each other around, clearly there to direct the boat to the right spot.

Our Wanaka lake cruise took 45 mins to get to Stevenson Island. It was a beautiful afternoon as we set off, no cloud, the sun’s rays at last warming us through, as we lounged on deck. There were only 15 or so on board and we chatted for a while with an older Scottish lady, who had lived in Invercargill for 40 or so years. She’d had an interesting career being a female ‘computer programmer pioneer’ in a multitude of international organisations, around the world. Oh and her husband was also called Colin!

We alighted on Stevenson Island and walked the 10 mins or so to the peak for a fab view of the lake. Had afternoon tea back on board, looking out over the vast, sparkly, turquoise, gently rippling water, with a backdrop to die for. Bliss.

Decided on an early dinner ‘out out’ in an Indian restaurant, watching the setting sun dip behind the hills.
Sadly, that’s a rap Wanaka 🎬.En savoir plus