An early start in the morning we all jumped into the freezing water for a swim. On a mission to do the Blue Pools before it gets too busy. Well we succeed with a beautiful forest walk that made Rowan into a Disney princess. He stopped and a Piwakawaka landed on his finger. We also took a cold dip into blue pools, naked of course. It was to walk back and warm up again.

Onto Wānaka where we op shopped and went to go look at that tree. We saw the carpark full, looked onto the lake and a sea of cameras and people. Germy said, I don’t need another photo of the tree. Jenna barely recognised Wānaka, she was last here 11 years ago. Apart from the lake and puzzling world she struggled.

We left Wānaka and headed to the Lindis Pass the weather was moody and perfect. We ended up in Twizel and we went to the Salmon Farm to grab a few goodies before having some lunch at The Ministry of Works. We headed out to Lake Pukaki and jumped into for a good long swim. Before deciding to head to Herbert.

When we reached Ōmarama I had the idea to go around the lake the way we cycled. We just timed it on a day that the hydro dam was releasing water. It ended up being every dam was releasing water and it was awesome to see.

When we got to Herbert we were pretty tired. Germy loves the place.