This morning I got out early, and found that it was an easy 15-minute downhill walk into town. Tekapo has a single strip of stores and restaurants by the lake, with scattered houses, motels and bed and breakfasts across the road in the hills above it. I went around behind the stores. There was a dirt path, fairly level, near the lakeside, and I walked along it. There were benches placed at suitable intervals by the local Lions Club; I sat on every one of them. The lake is indeed beautiful, and well-known for its turquoise opacity, which is caused by finely ground stone suspended in the water. It reminded me very much of a lake near my home in West Virginia, though of course that lake does not have the Southern Alps as a
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