Twizel Day

We awoke to the sound of pouring rain and that was ominous as far as our scenic flight was concerned. We phoned them as agreed just after 8 am and they confirmed every flight was cancelled until after lunch and so we should check back at about 1200. Anyway, we headed off toward Mount Cook town and spent some time in the visitor Centre and then visited the airport and they suggested we came back about 3 pm and with a bit of luck we would go. So we left the Airport and took a 45 minute walk up a steep and rocky hill to see a receding Glacier next to a lake which looked very dirty but in fact was a mixture of Ice, Rocks and water. Not the greatest of views but good exercise none the less. When we got back to the car park there were about five Classic Jaguar Cars parked, they were on a South Island tour, just like the Classic Bentley lot.

By this time we need to check with the Airport and so drove there only to find that the one hour flight with all the interesting bits such as landing on the Glacier was not possible due to visibility reasons however they did offer an alternative for about 25 minutes which we thought would not be much different from the views that we could see from the ground. We have therefore decided to bide our time and hope the weather changes over the next day or two.

We drove back to Twizel and the rain started briefly again so we walked around this major town, ten shops and three restaurants/cafes and spent a short while doing email etc.

Having looked at the menus around town we have decided to stay in the hotel again tonight for their buffet.

Getting connections to email in this part of New Zealand can be hard whilst it can also be slow and expensive.