Lake Matheson South Island

13th of October

We spent most of the day travelling to Queenstown which is a well known for Apres-Ski (but it is currently out of the Ski season) and extreme sports. This journey involved passing the Southern Alps which was again completely different scenery to the previous days.

I spent alot of time during this trip on a …

Left Franz Josef Glacier and it was only a hop and skip over 2 mountains to get to the town of Fox Glacier which was named after the glacier that runs thru it. I left tall Melanie yesterday but was greeted today by 3 roommates and I was the tallest of all!!!!. Peaches is from Malaysia as she has the frame of a very young gal but she is 29. Has a …

West coast cycle tour, North to South, Greymouth to Wanaka or Queenstown no definitely Wanaka that's far enough!!

The Wet Coast as it’s described in the book is a badge of honour for those in the know, well we didn’t know! We are to be challenged mentally and physically mmmm my favourite type of challenge. The wind the rain the …

So we headed out of Haast as quickly as we could and hot footed it up the beautiful coast for a quick stop at Bruce Bay where we marvelled at the long stretch of beach that was COVERED with people's rock stacks. And I mean it was covered!! We contributed our own and then hopped back in the car on our way to Fox Glacier.

We had never seen a …

Nach dem anstrengenden einsamen Track, gibt es zur Abwechlung das Touriprogramm. Wir fahren zuerst nach Haast und gehen ins DOC Office um uns ueber den Copland Track zu informieren, den wir dann doch nicht machen. Er passt nicht ganz von der Wettervorhersage. Heute ist es wunderbar schoen sonnig und bis auf ein paar Sandfly Schwaerme. Am Parkplatz …

We got up early and went for a walk down to Lake Matheson, which is one of the most famous mirror lakes in the world. It was a beautiful walk, with lots of spiders-webs covered in dew glinting in the sunlight.

The lake itself was beautiful, and the reflection was stunning. We had breakfast in the cafe at the lake and then started to …

This morning we got up at normal o'clock for a long day of driving with Wanaka as our final destination.

The slut bus left nice and early and we secretly hoped that would be the end of them.

We decided to give Fox Glacier a miss as we were pretty glaciered-out after yesterday's proceedings. On the way we saw a dude in a long wax …

Perfect day for Lake Matheson. Given one hour to tour Lake Matheson.. had to run back to bus in the end. Ducks are irritating in the lake. should use a short gun to blast them down. they nearly spoiled the reflection effect.

Hiked up Mt iron in the evening. Good hike …

We left Franz Josef early to head to Lake Matheson, probably New Zealand's most famous 'mirror lake'. You'll see it on lots of postcards. I did a walk round the entire lake for an hour, it was very reflective! Unfortunately, the weather wasn't great, so a bit too cloudy to get some good pictures, but a beautiful place nonetheless. We also did loads …

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... Walk. My leaflet said that this was a great walk to do at sunset, as the mountains sometimes change colour like they did at Lake matheson. It was a lovely clear evening, and I sat all alone high up at the lookout for over an hour, watching as the summit ...

... I've driven about 400 k's. I skipped Fox and Franz Josef glaciers because I don't have a camera and the weather is terrible. Lake Matheson offers an amazing view on a clear day, but nothing is clear today. I'm heading up to Punakaiki Beach to stay ...

... within minutes. Fortunate enough to arrive at Fox Glacier around 4pm the sun was beginning to set so our walk around Lake Matheson was simply sublime. The perfect reflections of Mount Cook, Mount Tasman and the surrounding Southern Alps in the water ...

... way before 9am. I wanted to travel 25km down the road to the glacier at Fox, and hopefully get some good reflective views at Lake Matheson. We called off at Peter's Pool on the way to get a stunning reflective view of the Franz Josef glacier, made ...

... . Certainly less crowded than Franz Josef the terminal of this was a much narrower glacier Ended the day with a walk around Lake Matheson. Shame that there were so many clouds obscuring the Southern Alps, as the view from the Reflecting Lake would ...

... a wander around and to the face of the glacier we headed to Lake Matheson.  On a clear day the lake reflects Mount Cook in the distance, but the New Zealand West coast is also known as the wet coast so, like most people I think, we didn't get a ...

Made our way to Queenstown yesterday. Had a lot of great stops along the way including Lake Matheson and AJ Hackett bungy. This was the birthplace of bungy jumping and we got to see a few jumps and a few people from the bus went! I've done it twice in ...

... took up the opportunity to take a break from driving and hiking and lazed around on the pebbly beach down by the lake. Ever since we arrived in New Zealand we've been blessed with amazing weather - there has barely been a cloud in the sky over the past ...

... a bit too cold this time of year! Further up the coast we were coming towards the mountains and glaciers and stopped first at Lake Matheson to walk around the lake which mirrors Mount Cook, etc, except today as it was a bit cloudy! We then drove up ...

... a 15 minute walk through forest area I reached the first lookout, and indeed the first photo opportunity! The views from Lake Matheson are very famous, particularly on nice days when the lake provides crystal clear mirror images of the mountains. Sure ...