After Mt. Cook, we travelled south to Wanaka. We liked Wanaka so much we spent a couple of days there. The first day we drove a looong gravel road, which included several places were we had to ford streams, to get to the Rob Roy Glacier Valley Trail.
The hike was definitely worth the long drive.
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| Trailhead - It started, as many hikes in NZ started, in a sheep pasture. |
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| The trail was an out-and-back to an awesome open view of mountains, glaciers, and glacier waterfalls. It's difficult to appreciate the scale of this place from a photo, but this is a 1,000ft waterfall in the distance. |
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| Katelyn refueling with a granola bar after a long hike:). |
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| The return hike back through the sheep pasture was stunning. |
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| Gorgeous mountains, glacier blue streams, beautiful weather... |
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| And that looong gravel road with the river fording? Well, the next morning we realized we were missing a chunk of our grey water pipe. We spent the next morning getting it fixed. |
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| Well, I guess we didn't really have to do anything... we went for a walk through the town and enjoyed a nice lunch outside while our van was getting repaired. |
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| Thanks to some great customer service, full coverage insurance, and speedy van maintenance, we still had time to do some rock climbing that afternoon. |
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| Chris, rappelling after a fun afternoon of climbing. |
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