Lindis Pass, From The Lakelands Of Central Otago, Winds Through Lonley Valleys Between Hills Like Tawny Camels’ Humps, To the Southern Extremity Of The Mackenzie Basin. A Place Of Burning Heat In Summer And Quick Floods In Winter, However It Always Manages To Appear Brown And Dusty, And Somehow Thirsty.
Lake Alexandrina, Less Celebrated Than Lake Tekapo, Being The Smaller Neighbour And Slightly Off The Main Route, Is Yet A Favoured Picnic Spot.
Lake Pukaki, With Mount Cook Towering Above, Is The Second Largest (31 Square Miles) Of The Mackenzie Country Lakes. Lying Crooked In The Frigid Arm Of The Ben Ohau Range, It Is The Site Of Major Hydro-Electric Works.
The Snows Of The Southern Alps, Crack Like Weathered Paint As The Summer Comes In And The Thaw Begins.
Glentanner Station : A Typical High-Country Sheep Run.
Lake Tekapo Is Wildly Beautiful, A Sort Of Upland Loch, Hidden In The Canterbury Hinterland But Belonging To The Scottish Highlands. The Bed On An Acient Glacier, Tekapo Is 25kms Long And 5kms Wide, Surrounded With Splendid Alpine Scenery.
The Ohau River Drains Lake Ohau, A 23-Square Mile Stretch Of Coldly Placid Water In The Mackenzie Basin. An Altitude Of 523 Metres Above Sea Level.
North Hagley Park : Christchurch - Plastered And Carpeted With Snow.
Hagley Park, Christchurch’s 248 Hectares Of Playing Fields, Golf Course, Streams, Botanic Gardens, Lakelets And Some Delightful Woodlands Is Well Known Far And Beyond. This Stand Of Oaks Is Bounded By The Wairarapa Stream, A Tributary Of The Avon River.
Mt Cooks Stupendous Peak, Soaring Up 3,764 Metres, And The Entire, Eternally Snow-Clad Massif Around It, Is An Everlasting Reminder Of Winter To The Runholders Whose Lands Spread About Its Feet.
Knights Point Was Named For The Fancied Resemblance To The Head Of A Black Labrador Retriever Belonging To One Of The Surveyors Of The Haast Pass Route.
Punakaiki : Home Of The Celebrated Pancake Rocks.
Lake Mapourika Is A Glacial Remnant, A One-Time Piece Of ‘Dead’ Ice About Forty Meters Thick. It Was Named By Goldminers, After A Ship Which Plied Between Australia And The West Coast.
This Is Typical South Westland Scenery - The Stream. Quiet Enough Along This Reach, Clattering Over Shallows Before A Backdrop Of Darkly Green Forest Asterisked With Giant Tree Ferns.
Fox Glacier Slides Down From A Vast Snowfield Between The Fritz And Fox Ranges, About 5km North Of Mount Cook.
