Punting on the Avon River.
On the way we stopped for lunch at a small town called Geraldine, where we fully expected Peyer Kay to appear walking along the road singing Amarillo. He didn't but we could pretend.
The day had started off fairly grey and overcast but David, our driver, told us that it would change later and we'd have blue skies and sunshine. Not sure we believed him but when we stopped in Geraldine a lady I was talking to told me that she'd just come from Mt Cook and that the sky was blue and the temperature 28c. A short while later, as we approached Lake Tekapo, the skies did clear and we were met with the most amazing view.
As you can see in the photograph above, the cloud is trapped and can't get over the mountain amazing. The water was that beautiful bluey green colour from the ice melt. We visited the Church of the Good Shepherd which must be one of the smallest churches in the world.
I've never seen a church before with a window behind the altar and don't imagine that many have the view below though. Not sure I'd be able concentrate on the sermon if I could see that view out of the window.
From the sundial below you can see that we are 11800 miles from London, just in case we didn't know.
We soon moved on to Mt Cook and some of our group had decided to do a helicopter ride around the mountain. I'm afraid we chickened out and instead soaked up the sun and ate an ice cream whilst looking at Mt Cook.
Our hotel is lovely and opening our curtains onto the panorama below was a treat. Mt Cook is in the middle of the photo in the distance.
Tonight we had our welcome dinner with the best lamb we've ever had accompanied by New Zealand Merlot. Now we are suitably stuffed and looking forward to our day on a Mac boat tomorrow to view the glacier.
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