Position 43 59.897S 170 27.69E

On the road to Lake Tekapo, mountains in the distance and yes, that animal for which NZ is famous for.

Lake Tekapo lies in a trough scoured out by glaciers during the last ice age and is now fed by ice melt form the southern alps.  Has a fabulous milky turquoise colour from ‘rock flour’ suspended eroded rock sediment.  It lies in Mackenzie County, named after a sheep smuggler.  Apparently, he was told, by Maori, of a pass into the region, stole a thousand sheep and led them up into the area named after him.  Beside the lake is the Church of the Good Sheppard.  Very popular wedding destination as you should see the view out of the window.  This shot is just down the road aways.  Lights not great.

Me outside the church of the dinky shepherd.

The parsons chair – dedicated to pioneering women, presumably because he could sit on them!

Next to the church is this bronze statue of a sheepdog.  Apparently some were called boundary dogs and they were literally left tethered at certain spots on the outskirts of fenced farmland to stop the sheep from straying or wandering into danger.  Some were left there for days – no animal rights in action then.  Erected for the value of the collie who ‘without the help of which grazing of this mountain country would be impossible’

View across lake from just down the road.

A sign that had Paul giggling.