A Turquoise Jewel

Lake Tekapo. Central South Island. 2007. Ajr

Summer or winter the Lake Tekapo area is a photographer’s paradise. The lake itself sits like a turquoise jewel in the middle of the barren, brown, tussock-covered landscape of the McKenzie Country and in winter, huge, heavy skies loom overhead. It can be bone-chillingly cold but so, so dramatic and always worth a stop. www.tekapotourism.co.nz