We took a detour on our way to Christchurch. Just seemed like we couldn't drive past the road to Aoraki/Mt. Cook without going there. Last night we were talking to a couple from Christchurch about Mt. Cook. They said it was certainly beautiful, but it was often hard to see all of it because of clouds. Then the man brightened up and said the forecast for today was for complete clearing and "Ye moight o' toimed it jeest roight." And so we did.....it was a perfect day, with no clouds to block our views all day.
We weren't prepared to climb 12,000 feet (yeah, right!), so we did a couple of smaller tracks! One was through the Hooker Valley, between and over glacial moraine ridges, with views of Mueller and Hooker glaciers, the Hooker glacier lake and river, and Aoraki. Really a nice hike! A shorter one took us to a view of the Tasman glacier, NZ's longest. It's so covered with rock and dirt that you could miss it if you didn't know what you were looking for, but the lake at its base is full of calved chunks.
We're spending the night at Lake Tekapo, another beauty. Christchurch tomorrow, maybe.
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