After a really late night yesterday (stargazing outing), we took it easy today. We had relaxed morning with proper sit-down breakfast.
Today we wanted relaxed pace and decided to pursue less touristy spot. We drove to Lake Ohau for a walk around the lake shore. It was beautiful, with plenty of solitude with just the two of us on the walk and a lone kayaker on the lake.
This is not the peak spring flower season, but we still found a variety of plants and shrubs to admire. We saw couple of varieties of blue weed, the yarrow (white), deptford pink, and St. John’s wort (yellow)
On the drive back we went searching for the LOTR film location for fields of Pelennor where the great battle takes place at Gondor between Rohirrim and Orcs. Not sure, how close we got to the location, but we were happy with what we saw.
Even a drive around the countryside in New Zealand can surprise you with some amazing beauty.
That’s it for today. We plan to laze around for the rest of the day and then go for some Indian food to satisfy our Indian food cravings 😀.
An update: We drove to Lake Ruataniwha after dinner. This is small lake, relatively, in Twizel. It is the local beach with playground.
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