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Saturday 4 February 2012

Wellington to Mt. Cook

Our trip really begins in Wellington where we departed and flew to Christ Church.  From Christ Church we traveled through the middle of the south island to Mt. Cook as shown below in red on our map.  Remember, this was Christmas day so most everything was closed!  We covered some 400km today or about 240 miles.


Highlights of this days trip included:
  • Our flight from Wellington down to Christ Church
  • A pass through the entrance of Rakaia Gorge #28 on the 101 Kiwi Weekend list
  • Drive through Geraldine, "Cheese Capital of New Zealand"
  • A stop at the southern end of Lake Tekapo to visit the Church of the Good Shepard #25 on the 101 Kiwi Weekend list.  As we approached the mountains, the fields were full of Lupin flowers
  • Seeing Mt. Cook, tallest mountain in New Zealand at 3,754m or 12,316ft.  This is #6 on the 101 Kiwi Weekend list
  • Staying at The Hermitage Hotel, training location of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to climb Mt. Everest.  Mt. Cook is the mountain he and numerous mountain climbers train on even today
Below is a what the Rakaia Gorge entrance looked like


Here's the Church of the Good Shepherd


Beautiful Mt. Cook and its surroundings


Pictures of our flight to Christ Church






Photos as we drive to Rakaia Gorge and on to the Church of the Good Shepherd









Photo's in and around the Church of the Good Shepherd and the Sheepdog Monument









Photos of Lake Pukaki and our approach to Mt. Cook in the distance









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