Wonderful Wanaka

Leaving Fox Glacier, we drove further down the West Coast before turning inland to Wanaka. Almost like a smaller Queenstown, Wanaka is a very pretty place - just coming into its Winter season. The blue of Lake Wanaka and Hawea is just stunning and somewhere its worth spending time at.




SJ decided to get her nails done here, so I opted for a walk up Mount Iron - quite a strenuous walk as it turns out, near vertical in places. Still, it was worth it for the view...

We had two days in Wanaka before we headed towards Te Anau. On the way out of Wanaka, there is a very spectacular viewpoint. We stopped and were rewarded with this plane (top left coming in to land at Queenstown - kind of gives you an idea of the scale!