Mt.Cook

We left the coast and headed inland, arriving two days later at Mt.Cook also known as Aoraki. The drive follows the entire length of Lake Pukaki, which, because of the glacial silt, looks robins egg blue! The color of the lake and the magnificence of Mt.Cook looming behind it was stunning! We managed to arrive on a clear, blue skied day and went for a beautiful hike up the Hooker Valley to the glacial lake of the same name, below Mt.Cook. Crossing two swing bridges, passing lakes and rivers the color of a frothy latte, we arrived at a sight I had never seen before: icebergs floating on a lake! We saw even more of these the next day when we hiked to the top of the moraine at the end of the Tasman glacier and looked into Lake Tasman. This lake had dozens of icebergs that looked tiny until you saw some kayakers among them which gave some perspective of their size!