Mt Cook

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We had some time to spare and decided that a detour from the coastal road would best occupy our time as we ventured almost all the way back across the South Island to Mount Cook.

We stopped to view the snow-capped glacier peaks from the lakes before thundering down the dead end road onto a gravel track to finish the journey. Having had a fair bit of offroad challenges on this trip, therefore the posted speed limits seemed reasonable until we found the rear end of the car sliding round corners Tokyo-Drift style!

An incredibly steep scramble up a path took us up to a view point in the Tasman Valley where iceburgs had today, fallen from the face of the glacier and into the lake at the foot of the mountains.

We decided to stop overnight for the spectacular morning views of the peaks, to be greeted with dense cloud so low, you could barely see the bottoms of the hills let alone the tops.

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