More 4WD-ng

Calm lakeside view at breakfast

corrugated iron biker

The Carricktown 'road' started here

Stopping to take photos on the way up

 

further up

turn round spot on white knuckle road

rocky bits on a fairly flat section

Going down - I was glad to get onto the seal

 

While we were in Cromwell we went to investigate another old mining area - this one up a 4WD track from Bannockburn.  This track goes to the Young Australian mine and is a walking track that you can - theoretically - drive along.  It made the previous day's drive seem like a motorway!  We drove up bare rock in places where the road wasn't so washed out we were driving at 45 degrees.  Worried that we might damage the car and be stuck - and no-one knew where we were - we turned round after reaching the ruins of huts at Carricktown.

The weather is very changeable.  From flat calm and sun in the morning we got strong wind and clouds in the afternoon, then warmer and clear skies.  Must have been cold that night though because the next morning there was a fresh dust of snow on the Pisa Range opposite us and more thickly on the other mountains we could see as we drove to Wanaka.