Christchurch to Lake Tekapo

We woke up around 7am, headed out into grey drizzly weather back to the airport for some breaky, and grabbed the shuttle to the car hire.

We collected the Hybrid Rav4 and set course for the Pak and Save at Hornby. This place is like a mini Costco, so we stocked up on snacks for our road trip. As the kids would otherwise ask for snack stops often. Oscar's request was a bag of carrots.

Our journey for today was head to Darfield, then onto the 77 via Rakaia Gorge, through Geraldine, and onto Farlie.

Rakaia Gorge was pretty spectacular the place must be magic is fine weather, even in the constant drizzle, the water was still turquoise. We even doubled back to do the bridge twice to visit the lookouts either side.

We stopped off at a few lookouts enroute to admire the grey clouds and the plaquards showing how sunning it is in fine weather. We also visited the antique roadside stop that is Burke's Pass.

Arriving at Fairlie around 1:30 we headed for the famed bakery, and it delivered. Hubby had the pork belly and apple pie, I had the delightful smoked chicken and mushroom pie. It was so good that Dale traded her muffin and went and got one too. These were washed down with some hot chocolates.

We continued onto Lake Tekapo, arriving after 2pm. We headed to the lake front and visited the Church of the Good Shepherd, then walked out to the shore over all the rocks. The water was very clear. I'm sure it's stunning in the sunshine, we still had light rain and low cloud.

We checked into the Haka House Hotel right in town for the night, then ventured back out to visit the few shops in town. We ended up with roast chicken and bread rolls for dinner back at the hostel. The boys then played a few rounds of pool.Læs mere