We was up fairly early today, check out is normally 10am but we were always late by the time we had showered etc. We had decided to break our journey up and stay overnight in Omarama, a small place on route to Lake Wanaka. There isn't a lot there which we knew, so we left Lake Tekapo and drove to Mount Cook for the day. The journey was gorgeous, through the Canterbury Plains, the views were amazing, especially as we got closer and closer to the Aoraki/Mt Cook. We stopped off a few times on route to chill and take photos.

When we arrived we called into the tourist information centre to see what there was to do. We decided to do a glacier excursion which was 3hours. This was really cool! We were picked up from a really nice hotel called The Hermitage (Aiden was impressed with the toilet sinks-he actually took a photo of them!) and then we headed off in a bus through the Tasman Valley. When we left the bus we had about a 20minute walk through the National Park to the Tasman Glacier Lake.

The lake was gorgeous! We boarded our boat and made our way past numerous icebergs. We were lucky enough to see one which had just turned over, and therefore was this gorgeous bright blue colour. You don't realise how huge they really are. You can only see 10% of it actually above the water, with the remaining 90% hidden underneath.

After admiring the many icebergs and getting close enough to actually touch them, we made our way across the lake towards the glacier which is currently about 27kilometers long and 600metres deep. The boats we were on stay about 800m away for safety reasons.

In February 2011, our guide said the earthquake in Christchurch caused a 30million-tonne chuck of ice to break away from the glacier and form several icebergs in the lake, so I was quite pleased we stayed at a reasonable distance away!! It also sent huge waves across the lake!!

After our boat trip we walked 20minutes back to the bus and were taken back to the Hermitage Hotel. Me and Aiden ate our picnic and headed back on the road to Omarama for the evening.

Once in Omarama we checked into a Top 10 Holiday Park, visited a small supermarket and made noodles for dinner! We were both shattered so decided to chill out in the camper and watch a film!