After the trials and tribulations of moving house we pottered around Lake Tekapo - so for those of you who would really like to learn something about New Zealand and not just how we are coping in a camper van.........
The lake water is a turquoise blue created by 'rock flour' which is rock ground down by the glaciers at the head of the lake.
The town is a hydro-town (for those who did not do that useful geography degree hydro electric power (HEP) is when you use the power of water to produce electricity). Tekapo is the start of a series of 8 hydro power stations that make up the Waitaki Hydro Scheme.
This is the Church of the Good Shepherd built in 1935 as a memorial to the pioneers of this area - 1935!!
and this sheep dog statue was erected by the 'runholders' as a tribute to the collie dog who enables sheep to graze the mountain country.
Apparently the sky at night here is the clearest, darkest and most spectacular in New Zealand - but we were too busy falling over each other in the van to see this!
Off to Mount Cook ..........
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