Christchurch
March 5th 2017 Lake Tekapo was our first stop, another lake of a remarkable turquoise colour, fringed in part with lupins, now over. We popped into the small chapel on the lakeside, the Church of the Good Shepherd but there were hoards of tourists so we didn't linger. We had passed many canals and a series of damns as we drove through the area and apparently they formed part of the hydroelectric infrastructure w
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