Glorious Glen Orchy

We had a quieter day driving to Lake Wanaka for lunch, then back through Queenstown to a place that Hamish has said was wonderful - Glen Orchy - he was right!

We freedom camped again beside the lake watching the cloudy sunset and bright sunrise over the superb snow capped mountains all round. I wonder if the original in Scotland is as tranquil and relaxing.

  Waking up here was about as good as it gets

 Made all the better by the bacon and eggs finished off on a fire on the beach (the gas cylinder ran out!!)

 

 

 A coffee to stay..... just look at the view

 

As Malcolm said this is the place that people drive to in their camper buses and then throw away the keys because this is the best it can get!

Like this one!

Definitely coming back here at Christmas time!

Then back to Christchurch for Malcolm's conference flew back to Tauranga, picked up the cars and a long drive to Auckland and to our new life in the big smoke! - perhaps we should have just thrown away the keys for the Jucy van???