We had about a five hour drive today through the
glorious hills and snow covered mountains and past beautiful lakes until we
reached Wanaka about 15.00 hrs. The sun was shining and it was really quite hot
but we set about putting up the tent and in about an hour and a half we were
complete. This took longer than normal as we needed to reorganise the car a bit
first to access the stuff we needed and by 5.30 pm we were in town having our
first beer overlooking this wonderful lake.
We wandered around for a while then found a fish and
chip shop, to make up for yesterday, and had a good early meal and then got
back to the camp site where we visited the lounge for a while and watched the Melbourne
open tennis tournament.
By ten pm we were getting tired and so headed back to
the tent and our first night’s sleep in a tent for a while. We had learnt our
lessons from our last NZ trip how warm it is in the day but how cold it can be
at night andf so this time we are total prepared for anything and we were not
cold at all.
Tomorrow, apart from a little shopping will be a day of
rest.
