Lake Tekapo

I haven’t been able to post anything as I’ve been pretty isolated the last few days - no wifi. So I have some catch up to do.

We got up and drove from Christchurch southwest to Lake Tekapo. The weather was pretty rough - raining and lots of cloud cover. Kind of bummed as I knew the mountains we were heading into were spectacular. Luckily the weather cleared just when we got there so got to really enjoy all the views. The water in the mountain lakes is SO blue, and there are bunnies everywhere.

Driving in New Zealand is very different. There are no stop signs, or really any stop lights. They exist with only round a-bouts and yield or “give way” signs. It works great as you never get stopped anywhere.

New Zealand is absolutely beautiful - the colors, especially the pastureland is an unbelievable green. Pictures can’t capture its beauty. As jordan said, if I were to paint using that color, people would think it is completely fake.

Once we got set up at Lake Tekapo we headed over to the hot springs to soak for awhile. Later in the night, we went back for star gazing as this area is a “star reserve” - meaning there is little to no light pollution there so viewing the stars is amazing. It was an hour of education and the use of high power telescopes and then an hour floating in the hot springs on air mattresses looking at the night sky. It was fantastic. About 40° outside, and water was 104°. Amazing experience. Sadly we couldn’t take any pics - we choose to leave our phones in the lockers and just enjoyed ourselves and took in the moment. I did find some pics online of the experience tho.

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