Oamaru to Lake Tekapo

First thing I went back out to the Elephant Rocks with much more success with batteries this time. Apparently this area was used in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

The rest of the drive was through Omarama and Twizel on to Lake Tekapo. As usual, the scenery was stunning with the snow capped mountain ranges of Mount Cook dominating the entire way.

Even now as I look out from the back of my little mobile home, I can see huge pine trees, a blue lake and mountains covered in snow. Picture perfect.

Tomorrow I’m heading in to Chrictchurch which marks the beginning of the end. Lucida gets handed back on Thursday morning and I’m back in Sydney on Saturday for a 10km fun run on Sunday. Nooooooo….. I wonder if Monica will mind that I’ve forgotten how to run?.... Might be more of a 10km waddle :o)

Portobello to Oamaru

Nice sleep in and leisurely drive today. I left the windy peninsula in search of the boulders of Moeraki and stumbled on a lovely cheese factory on the way. The boulders were pretty interesting and I had an old german couple telling me how they’d been there 20 years ago and could see the difference as some of the boulders had cracked apart.

On to Oamaru after this with a quick detour to the Elephant Rocks just out of town. I’d been looking forward to this one all day and then after traipsing out into the field my camera batteries died. Just as well I’m coming this way again tomorrow huh?
Tonight me and a zillion other tourists were at Bushy Beach in the hopes of spotting some yellow eyed penguins which are apparently very rare. Finally about 90 long minutes later two little fellows came waddling out of the water up to the protection on the cliff base. Soooo very cute but we were all too far away to get a decent picture :o(

Queenstown to Portobello

Some georgous driving scenery again from pisturesque Queenstown to the windy Otago Peninsula town of Portobello. Stopped off at the other AJ Hackett bungy site along the way. This is the one I could have gone to but was too chicken...





On the peninsula I drove around looking for somewhere to spot a penguin and ended up at Lanarch Castle. Nothing like the awesome ones in Scotland but it was a nice walk around the grounds anyways.