Wednesday, January 15, 2014

14th January 2014- Timaru to Wanaka

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.