We left early from Wanaka in order to get plenty of time at Mount Cook. The road there was gorgeous, we passed a dam, a canal, and some amazing sedimentary structures. As we got into sight of the mountain we approached a dazzling light blue with a tinge of green lake it gets its unique color from the glaciers that feed it. Mount cook in itself was amazing, there were glaciers on it and the surrounding mountains as well as glacial lakes and rapids, one of them actually had icebergs floating around in it. We actually jumped into one of the lakes, I do not know about normal glacial lakes, but let me just make it clear this one was dirty, and very sediment rich. And when I say jumped into one of the lakes I mean I slowly waded in and then immersed myself for a few seconds in the frigid water and got right back out of it to the warm sun. That day we hiked around and looked at the glaciers. That night we all sat outside in our sleeping bags and watched the shooting stars whiz by in the majestically clear sky. The sky was so clear that we could see the Milky way as well as both or the Magellan clouds. All in all quite-perfect.
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| Look at that bedding, and the cool weathering pattern. |
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| Glacial lake- the oddest colour I have ever seen in alike, and in the distance- Mount Cook. |
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| This is the view from our campsite, not bad. (Note-that is not Mount Cook!) |
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| We crossed that bridge! |
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| Chrsitina, Sara, and Jon-our photographer |
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| Icebergs! |
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| A reflection |
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| Some alpine plants |
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