19.11.09 Just South of Arthur's Pass National Park- Canterbury

We wake up to a stunner of a day today so we take a ramble up the banks of the impressive Kakairi Gorge

with a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and explore the gravel tracks of the mountain ranges to Lake Coleridge,

Mount Sunday

(where they filmed 'Edoras' for Lord of the Rings) and Lake Heron, each as stunning as the last, a real wilderness.