It rained hard all night. In fact the pounding of the rain on the camper van’s roof kept us awake. We didn’t even try Rob’s Peak. In the morning the rain had stopped but everything was sodden and Christine just has tennis shoes and mine aren’t much better. We would have been climbing through mist with cold and wet feet. Disappointing though-maybe next year.
Instead we drove 200km on the high desert road through the middle of the south island to Mt Cook and got to the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Center around 2.00pm. Lots of roadside wildflowers and Fall colours in the trees - New Zealand is home to the largest buttercup in the world - but we didn’t find it. Mt. Cook was shrouded in clouds and so we went to the Alpine Center and bought tickets for all of the movies and watched the movie of Hillary’s life and his conquest of Everest. It was very good.
We are camped in a very remote spot and I am looking forward to the southern sky star show during my 2.00am lonely walk to the campsite’s bathrooms.
No comments:
Post a Comment