Today we went back to the lakes to explore them more. It was cloudy but hot between 22*c and 29*c in different areas.

We went along some lakes until we met dirt tracks and then we would turn back!

On the return journey we tried to find elephant rocks, a limestone outcrop we were told to view by the lady in the information centre at Timaru. We knew we had to go to the road near Hakataramea but programmed the sat nav wrongly for its valley(fortunately not my doing for once !) Well the road was down a beautiful VERY LONG valley and after about 25 miles the road turned to a dirt track which we thought was strange but we continued. Then after a long time again we found we had been heading north not east oops. We never got to elephant rocks so can’t tell you what they are like ha ha. We reprogrammed the sat nav for our hotel and found to our dismay it was 91 miles away OMG. So we went back along the VERY LONG but beautiful valley  to find the road we should have taken.

We saw many birds of prey, and other birds too. The area was full of farms but hardly any houses. We saw fields of pigs sheep cows lamas deer chickens wheat and vegetables. But mostly sheep and cows.

Last day in Timaru tomorrow, then we head down to the south of the island on Tuesday.