Well, another weekend, another adventure! This weekend we headed to Queenstown, where quickly got tired of the mass of tourists-so we only stayed long enough for Keith to buy a used kayak before getting the heck out of town to the Glenorchy area at the northern tip of Lake Wakatipu. The drive out there was nothing short of spectacular!
Once we finally set up camp, we did a short walk to Lake Sylvan, where Keith had to go swimming. And just a note on how long our days are-it was about 6:30 in the evening when we got to the lake-but we have daylight until 10 pm-yeah it's awesome!
The next day we did a little harder tramp called Glacier Burn and it took us to Bryant glacier in the Humboldt Mountain range. We climbed up a ways to make it to the basin and while I was content to take pictures and read once we got there, Keith went and climbed up the mountain as far as he could and he got pretty far! Can you find Keith in this picture?
While I was hanging out in the basin I tried to take pictures of the stream that was fed by the glacier-but I'm not going to post anything in there (but I'll put one in the photo gallery on the side-they're terrible!) because the water was so incredibly, impossibly clear that it just looks like rocks-it was kind of amazing! There were also great views of the little town of Glenorchy and the surrounding mountains.
Who knows what this week is going to have in store!
Ellen--you are killing me with all this beauty! Enjoying your adventures I hope? What a wonderful place. Cannot wait to see me.--Dawn
ReplyDeleteThanks Dawn! It seems impossible not to be enjoying everything here-though it would be nice to share it with friends! Miss you!
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