Lake Tekapo to Kurow via Mount Cook

I really can't believe how much we seem to have packed in since leaving Lake Tekapo yesterday morning. We had decided to take in Mt Cook and the Sir Edmund Hilary Alpine Centre which is a tribute to the late Kiwi explorer and the first man to reach the summit of Everest. We approached Aoraki along the shore of Lake Pukaki, a fairly easy run (from my point of view) as there were not too many twists and turns in the road. Once more the scenery was fantastic with mountains of all shapes and colours for as far as the eye could see contrasting with the pale turquoise of the lake. Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand at 3754 metres, and although we couldn't see the top due to the heavy cloud we could see snow on some of the nearby peaks.
We picniced at a place on the shore of the lake called Peter's Lookout, very apt we thought.

Then on to Kurow where we were to spend the night at Glenmac, a cattle and sheep farm. This was run by a lovely couple called Kay and Keith and as it was some way from the village we had dinner at the farm along with an Irish couple from Suffolk, a retired dentist and his wife. Wow, what a dinner, drinks before and then fresh roast lamb from the farm with a vast array of veg and a fresh apricot desert.

Good job we went for a walk after dinner because breakfast was equally as good. Defintely food for thought if ever we come back.

Our destination for today was Dunedin so on the recommendation of Pat, the Irish dentist, we stopped at Oamaru for coffee to see some of the local architecture and again at Moeraki where we stopped to see the famous Moeraki boulders which are strewn along the beach like giant turtle eggs having been formed some 65 million years ago. At first glance you could almost think they were manmade they were so cylindrical.