Thursday, 21 January 2016

Camping - The wilderness near Twizel

Jasper decided to come with us atleast for the first lake. Which means we have a car for now atleast! So we drove along the Lindis Pass Alpine Highway to a campsite about 5km outside of Twizel. The drive was insanely beautiful. I don't even need to write about it the pictures speak for themselves. We passed a hydroelectric dam which was pretty cool. They have a lot of salmon fishing on the canals for the dams. It's hard to comprehend that 100km west of where these photos were taken is temperate rainforest.
The campsite is in the middle of nowhere. The toilet is a hole in the ground with a seat on it. It's between this small lake and one of the canals that feeds into the hydroelectric dam. You can see mountains everywhere you look in the distance. We cooked our first proper camp meal with real vegetables and everything!
We are also in the Aoraki McEnzie dark sky reserve unfortunately it was too cloudy to see any stars. But there isn't an electric light in sight!

The campsite is also free! Which is always a plus.

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