Lake Tekapo

I cannot do any links on this post because I can only open one instance of Internet Explorer at a time. I usually have one open to google to find the appropriate link sites. Sorry for the inconvenience and all that. Not that I really expect anyone to follow the links...

We are in a really beautiful town called Lake Tekapo on the shores of the lake of the same name. It is a glacier fed lake and cold (as both kids but neither parent can really attest to). Surrounded by mountainy hills. Nothing but nature out front of the hostel and not much town to speak of. Unfortunately there is a LOT of condominium building going on and I think it will not be nearly as nice in not very long. Right now it has some star observatories on a hill above the town, but I am sure they will suffer as the town expands and maybe puts in street lights, etc.

We have had relatively short days on the bus since Queenstown and tomorrow is the same. The day we left Queenstown (yesterday) we arrived in Dunedin at 1 pm. We booked and went on a wildlife tour from 3-9 pm. It was GREAT. It was called the Elm Wildlife Tour and it would be worth searching your own link for it. I will put one in next time I fix the blog. We saw a seal colony from about 50 ft above, then went down to a beach and saw Yellow Eyed Penquins and Seal lions (including a pup) really close up (problably about 5 meters). We then went and saw albatross. I would recommend it to anyone in this neck of the woods.

Today we headed north again and stopped at the Morekai Boulders (wierd round rocks in the ocean) on the way here to Tekapo. We didn't really do much else eventful. Tomorrow we do our last bus leg of New Zealand and head for Christchurch. We fly from there on the 15th.

P.S. mum you were wrong, 3 weeks is NOT long enough in New Zealand, I would have happily spent at least another week or two here. It is beautiful. They are really good at enticing money out of your pockets, though. Lots of really great activities. They apparently have 2 million visitors a year here and there are only 4 million New Zealanders, 1/3 of them living in Auckland.