At the end of yet another hot and sunny day, I can't quite believe my luck with this weather! Fingers crossed it doesn't change any time soon... I got up at 7.30 this morning so I could get out and up into the mountains before it became too hot. I climbed Ben Lomond, which is 1748m above sea level, starting out from Lake Wakatipu at 310m. There is a cable car up the first 400m or so, which takes you to the Skyline restaurant (but using that would have been cheat...

I left the lakes and mountains of Wanaka behind this morning to travel to more lakes and mountains in Queenstown... Well I am in the Southern Lakes region after all! I could happily have stayed another week in Wanaka, it has been my favourite place so far I think. We stopped at Puzzling World on leaving Wanaka, where I managed to wake up a few brains cells and blow away one or two cobwebs... Sort of. We then stopped off at Mrs Jones' fruit store just outside Que...