New Zealand. Tekapo

Today we made our way north out of Queenstown up to Tekapo. This is another lake side town. Unfortunately cyclone Lucy ended our glorious sunny days and brough cloud our way. She is hitting the north island but hopefully I can avoid the worst of her. 

Our drive was another beautiful drive and took us to the highest point in the South Island.  If only the clouds weren't so low we could have seen the mountain range and see Mount Cook. Not a good day for climbing that today! 

We passed Lake Pukaki and it was such I vibrant turquoise even on a cloudy day. We didn't stop for a photo shoot! We just set off for Tekapo. We arrive and went to see the most photographed church in NZ. Not very impressive, but the view was pretty good! 

After arriving at out hostel we made a hike up Mount John which was just outside. More hiking with my bad knee, but we were in the middle of nowhere and this was all really to do. It took about and hour to get up but it was worth it. The lake looked so blue from up there, very different to how it looked from the ground. 

Just after getting to the bottom, the rain started and hasn't stopped. Tekapo is supposed to be the best place to see the stars as they have special dark areas. Sadly no stars tonight, just cloud.