Lakes Tekapo and Alexandrina

Next day we visited Lake Tekapo with its flowers and view of Mount Cook.

 

 

And then on to Lake Alexandrina wher Rob had yet another fishing failure.

 

 

Backtracking once again through Twizel we tried to visit the Black Stilt sanctuary but found it close down, Shame.

On then to the Clay Cliffs near Omarania. Up a dirt road to what at first sight looked uninspiring rocks.

This is not the case when you get up close. They are just as described, Clay cliffs with many tracks into the valley of amazing formations all in soft clay and shale. Not very stable you would think but they seem safe enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The braided river bed is covered in Lupins.

 

 

We carried on the Lindis Pass to a very well hidden D.O.C site.

The sat nav showed we had arrived but there was no turn off road where it should have been.

We continued about ten kilometres further down the main road and found a dirt road going off to the right. This took us back the same ten kilometers on the dirt road to the site.

Beautiful setting beside an old derelict Hotel.

There was obviously once a bridge over the river but this had long since disappeared.