Yet more rivers and lakes

28^th Feb 2015

After our beautiful Fox Glacier experiences, we continued down the West Coast, stopping briefly at a Salmon Farm in Lake Paringo area, to purchase some fresh and smoked goods  in which to indulge. We continued down the coast to Haast, at the river mouth of the same name.

One of the breeding stock

Along the Haast River

A short walk through beautiful rain forest brought us to the Blue Pools

 From there we turned inland, following the Haast River Pass up along the river, past the “Gates of Haast”, until we reached northern end of Lake Wanaka. 

Lake Wanaka

The road follows the shoreline for about 20kms, before cutting eastwards, and meeting up with  yet another gorgeous lake,  Lake Hawea. 

Lake Hawea.........

..........lakes

and forgive me.......

more beautiful lakes!!!!!

 Again the road follows the shoreline for many kilometres, before cutting back to the most southerly end of Lake Wanaka.

That was enough beauty for one day, so we made camp at the Top 10 in Wanaka, which to be honest, was the first rather run down holiday park of this marquee that we had stayed in.

The next morning we woke up to a rather gloomy day, which dampened our spirits somewhat, as we made our way  past Lake Wakatipu, and through the tourist mecca of Queenstown, and on down to Te Anau, on the shore of Lake Te Anau!!!

From here we had booked our Discovery Tour of the Milford Sound for the Sunday, and we held thumbs that the weather would cooperate!