Lake Take a poo

This morning dawned quite wet and rainy still, but Queenstown didn’t seem to mind! It set off on it’s rush hour (about 10 minutes worth) and then carried on about it’s business!

We decided to try to find the ford in LOTR where Liv Tyler washes out the riders, as apparently it’s in Arrowtown just outside of Queenstown, but it’s really hard to try to remember the scene and match it to the actual scenery, especially as there was no big pointer saying “Liv Tyler wos ‘ere” or anything!

Suz thinks that this was it though, and if it isn’t, I’m still blaming her!

We then set off for Mt. Cook to end up at Lake Takepo for tonight, but as we set out, the rain started coming down in earnest, and at times it looked like the end of the world was nigh! By the time that we got to the turn off for Mt. Cook, we couldn’t see over the next rise, and therefore wouldn’t be able to see anything of the mountain, so we carried on going until we hit the lake, which was an amazing colour, but still being lashed by the rain.

It took until around 5.30pm for it to clear, at which point we were able to get a few snaps of the lake and surrounding mountains…

the Lake was beautiful, the town not so much!

Can’t believe that it’s back home time tomorrow, we’ve had such a great time here, and it’s so beautiful! So, back to Christchurch tomorrow and then on a plane :(