Monday, 11 March 2013

Wanaka Part 2

Wednesday night decided that it would be good to have a "craic" with some locals so we ambled down the road to the Albert Town Tavern where the only locals, apart from the bar staff, were a large group of ladies belonging to an Alpha Club having a dinner meeting in another room. So we enjoyed an alfresco beer alone before ordering our beerbattered blue cod and salad to help our fish intake - nice but such a big plateful I couldn't finish it. If we had stayed longer we would have seen the men belonging to the Lion's Club come in for a meeting also.

Yesterday, Thursday, found us playing golf on the Wanaka Course with it's beautiful views over the lake and surrounding mountains. On the 2nd hole the Red Checkers planes started a half hour acrobatic display so that temporarily made it rather difficult to concentrate as we just had to try and watch but not hold other players up. My golf is going through yet another bad patch but I'm learning to at least enjoy the surroundings as we go from hole to hole. Len is managing to be reasonably consistent so that means he can give me a shot on each hole and still beat me! AND he has been especially good at Scrabble and Sequence lately too!
I think we'll have to play more 500 - I'm sure I still have the upper hand at that!
Not a normal occurence!

Len is busy cleaning the outside of dirty, dirty Debussy as I write this so it's now time for me to do the inside!
Cool!
....... Since doing the springcleaning we have had a swim in the Clutha river which runs right below our "camp site" at Johns. The water is so clear and very refreshing. People seem to think we are very brave as not many manage to get more than their toes wet!


We have also been to PuzzleWorld which is one of the leading tourist attractions in NZ and thought it was good -really interesting although rather disorientating at times! They also have a Maze but we didn't feel the need to find our way in and out of that.
Toilet stop before leaving PuzzleWorld!

After a quick wander through town and the purchase of another book for me from the Salvation Army we hit the road again driving past Lake Hawea, where we rode our bikes, and on up to the top of Lake Wanaka to a free camping spot on the lake edge with 3 other motorhomes. We enjoyed another refreshing swim in the lake when we arrived which helped us to cool down in the hot temperature - about 28° - and then a hydrating beer in our deckchairs WITHOUT any sandflies although there are some coming into the bus now we have the lights on.

Tomorrow we will edge our way towards the West Coast - looks like the weather is going to stay sunny and hot but the whole country desperately needs some rain.

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