Mt Cook

There's a little church at Lake Tekapo, check the view!

I know you can't believe it, but it was a lot more turquoise than that!

The Tasman glacier and the iceburgs

A regular sight at Oamaru

We decided to take a different route and get away from the coast and in to to mountains! Not just any mountains! They highest mountains in Australasia! The route towards the area was so beautiful and has these turquoise lakes against snowy mountains for a few hours until you reach Mt Cook national park. We stopped off a few times on the way there at places like Lake Tekapo and it was really nice. By the time we got to Mt Cook it was snowing so stayed the night and tried to do some walking in the morning. Given that we are hardened walkers we took the 15 minute trail up to the Tasman glacier (it was snowing ok!). It was really impressive, and had formed a lake at the end of it, which even had iceburgs floating in it that had broken away from the glacier. After our mammoth walk we headed to a place called Oamaru which has these teeny little blue penguins that come out from the sea at night to rest until 4.30am. So we caught them all coming in from the sea and meeting up with their mates, to, ahem, mate! It was interesting and slightly odd that after this some of them ended up in the car park and nearly runover, whoops!