Lake Pukaki and Steampunk

Cloudy view towards Mount Cook

Our Xmas spot

Xmas day walk - it was quite chilly!

sunnier view from the bus at Lake Pukaki

...just couldn't get the sun on the mountains!

 

coffee stop at Lake Aviemore

outside Steampunk H.Q. Oamaru

steam punk bus channelling Darth Vader

steampunkery

 

We spent Christmas time at Lake Pukaki which looked fantastic when the sun was out - bright turquoise water.  Mount Cook was mostly hidden behind clouds, sometimes showing some snowy slopes, sometimes it's summit but never its whole self.  Yesterday was a very social day.  We discovered our friends Gaye and Rob Ambler were in their motorhome not far away so we visited them and had lunch there.  Then in the evening we went to Tekapo and had dinner there with our friend Katherine (from Whangarei) and her friend visiting from the U.K.  Today we left Lake Pukaki and drove across to Omarama (where Katherine passed us, waving - they were off to Wanaka) - we turned and drove down to a place called Awamoko on highway 83, north of Oamaru.

Since we have an interest in the Steampunk phenomena we checked out Steampunk H Q - 'tomorrow as it used to be'.