Tomorrow, I leave Lake Tekapo, but I could happily stay here for a few more days. There really isn't much of a town as such. Just a couple of small tourist shops, a garage, a few cafes and a pub. Oh, and a crazy golf course. It's home to the Church of the Good Shepherd and a wonderfully petrol blue lake with dangerously rugged and rocky shores. But it's simply beautiful.
On the first night here, quite a few of us from the magic Bus had a barbeque at the Lake Front Backpackers Lodge. The evening stayed warm until 8.30pm and the view as the sun went down was stunning.
Yesterday, I wandered around the lake, taking photographs and reading in the sunshine. Bliss.
Later. as I sat, waiting to be picked up by the horse riding centre I had booked with for the afternoon, a young girl in an old battered Datsun drew up in front of me. She didn't look old enough to drive! This was Charlotte and she was 18 and managing the riding school while the manager was out on a 6 day hike. After a breakneck drive round gravelly roads, we arrived at the centre; a very small ranch style setting. I then went horse riding for a few hours, along with 4 Swiss girls, one of whom sounded rather poorly. We trekked up the mountainside and the down again, along a small path that overlooked a sheer drop to the lake below. It was scenic, hot, sunny and peaceful. I am still aching now.
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