Our last day in Queenstown area today and we decided to visit a few of the lakes starting at lake Wakatipu and go over the high road to Wanaka and beyond.

Today we are in Summer weather and temperatures for the first time 23* to 26*c. Again with wind all the time but a warm wind.

We walked a looooong way along the lake shore at Wanaka. We found the “lone tree” that is famously photo’d. It looked very small from the town but we walked all the way to it and as we got nearer, it is very impressive growing in the lake.

We have certainly caught the sun today.

Next we travelled to Lake Hawea and Lake Dunstan(artificially made by a dam)

We returned to Queenstown via the highway that travels through the gorge where the gold was mostly mined. Megs Falls were impressive and the hydro electric centre.

We then made a visit to Arrowtown but felt it was a commercially made town recreating a gold town and not very well done.

It is still very warm tonight and hopefully we will see a dry Haast tomorrow. If you remember, 3 years ago we had the worst rain we’ve ever experienced continuing for 3 days and nights! Fingers crossed for this timexxx