Lake Hawea

Friday 30 December; Lake Hawea is another terminus lake from a previous glacier. Situated about 20 km from Wanaka, and reached by 15 km of good gravel track that would have had a number of ford crossings but they were all dry. There's a free camping site at the end, complete with toilets, and we stopped off to have a picnic lunch. Within 5 minutes we had vowed never to camp there, the site was infested with sandfly and we all got bitten legs.

Back down the track to another lake access point. As pictured it was almost beach like, the wind was roaring down the Hunter Valley and across the lake creating waves at the southern 'shore' a good 2 feet high.