Wanaka

Finally a few days of great weather! It’s incredible how seeing the sun can change your outlook. This is a great little town on the edge of a beautiful lake, surrounded by the Southern Alps. The only down side is that I wasn’t able to find a spot to go WWOOFing. Winter has arrived and so farm work seems to have disappeared. I hope to find a farm once to get to Otago.



I spent the first afternoon sitting on the beach enjoying the sun and catching up with some reading and writing. Then I went to this amazing funky theater with L., a fellow Canadian that I met on the ferry to the South Island. The cinema was fully licensed, served a full menu, and made freshly baked cookies for intermission! To watch the movie you get comfortable on old comfy couches… or L. and I got to sit in an old yellow car! It was a great fun time and the cookies were to die for.



The second day was spent outside walking around part of the lake with a bunch of people I met in the hostel. The weather was cooperative, the sun was out, the mountains were beautiful, and the lake was shinning. Fall has arrived with a bang; the leaves are colorful and the air is chilly.