Lake Sylvan

On the day we had to leave Arrowtown and go to Wanaka, we went first to Glenorchy which is one of my favourite places in the country. Well not the town itself but the mountains and forests around it.
We did the easy walk to Lake Sylvan as it is a beautiful piece of forest and nice and flat so the kids could walk the whole way, although extremely slowly.




The very same tree Danilo somehow convinced me to have my photo with 15 years ago. Long before I ever thought I would be trapped in Australia.


Lake Sylvan, and beautiful mountains. It was lovely although like a lot of things in NZ today it was more of a road than a track with everything catered to the plagues of tourists that infest the country. Still though you only need to go on a track which is not featured in the lonely planet to avoid the vermin.


South Island Robin - Petroica australis. The advantage of going really slowly with the little ones is lots of robins came in to investigate.