On Saturday morning, July 26, 2014, Jody and I flew out of Wellington to Christchurch on the South Island as the first stop in a weekend retreat to mutually celebrate our birthdays. The final destination was Lake Tekapo to have some fun tubing, lounging in the hot springs, and the "Piece de resistance", hopefully a clear night to view the night sky from the Earth and Sky Observatory on top of Mt. John.
Entering Christchurch air space.
As we drove in our rental car from the airport to Lake Tekapo we became increasingly excited as mountains all of a sudden became very WHITE and loomed larger and larger in our field of vision.
Along the way we passed a deer farm where they stood up and watched us while we paused to take pictures.
We arrive to this, our first view of Lake Tekapo.
Our lodging at Peppers Bluewater Resort.
The view from our room.
Sunset.
Jody at MacKenzie's Restaurant across from the resort where we had a terrific dinner. Following dinner we made our way over to Earth and Sky for our 6:45 pm trip up to Mt. John to view the night sky. Unfortunately, it was not to be. The cloud cover was too heavy and we decided to try again the next night. Fortunately, Earth and Sky allows you to roll over your reservation when conditions are not good. However, staff said that the next night's weather was not promising either. We left rather disappointed and concerned that we may not get to see the night sky as we had planned. We only had one more night in Lake Tekapo before leaving Monday morning for our return trip to Christchurch and then home to Wellington.
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