GBS Road Trip New Zealand - 22 | Day 08 : Queenstown - Lake Tekapo

Perjalanan di teruskan lagi.

Masa untuk bergerak dan meneruskan perjalanan


Meneruskan perjalanan 

Melalui kawasan Kawarau River

Dan kami singgah dekat look out point ni. Tak lama sebab hujan tetiba lebat

Kawarau River

The Kawarau River drains Lake Wakatipu, in northwestern Otago, New Zealand. The river flows generally eastwards for about 60 kilometres (37 mi) and passes through the steep Kawarau Gorge until it joins Lake Dunstan near Cromwell. The Shotover River enters it from the north; the Nevis River enters it from the south. Containing many rapids and strong currents, the river can be dangerous and has claimed many lives.

Kawarau is a Māori name the meaning of which is many shrubs. There are still many shrubs around the river although they are largely of exotic origin and likely to be different from the original native bushes that the name came from. The name should be pronounced to rhyme with "now" but is often pronounced by locals as if it were "K'worra". It should not be confused with the Bay of Plenty town "Kawerau".

Meneruskan perjalanan

Lapar.

Nasib baik ada bekalan roti dalam kereta. Lepas dapat makan baru la start borak dan excited nak bercerita pasal pengalaman buat bungy jumping tadi tu.

Tak lama lepas tu kami sampai di pekan kecil bernama Cromwell.

Cromwell is a town in Central Otago in the Otago region of New Zealand.

It is situated between State Highway 6 (linking to Wanaka, 50 km north, and Queenstown, 60 km west) and State Highway 8 leading to the Lindis Pass, 75 km northeast, and Alexandra, 33 km south. The road to Alexandra winds through the Cromwell Gorge. A point near Cromwell lies 119 kilometres from the sea, the farthest from the sea anywhere in New Zealand.[2] A prominent feature surrounding much of the town is the man-made Lake Dunstan. Cromwell also has the newly constructed Highlands Motorsport Park. Nearby settlements are at Bannockburn, Lowburn, Tarras, and Ripponvale.

Cromwell is also the home of the Cromwell Chafer Beetle

Cromwell di NZ ini terkenal sebagai kawasan yang terkenal dan banyak menghasilkan pertanian dan buah buahan.

Replika buah buahan di tepi jalan di Cromwell

Kami singgah sekejap di kawasan town untuk toilet break. Sebab belum musim buah, so harapan nak makan buah terbantut. Lagipun cuaca renyai renyai buat kami malas nak singgah lama.

Cromwell pernah menjadi kawasan tumpuan kerana penghasilan emas satu ketika dulu

Ladang anggur. Tapi masih belum tumbuh disebabkan cuaca sejuk

Tak de rezeki nak merasa

Perjalanan di teruskan lagi dari menuju ke Omarama. 

Sepanjang jalan ni baru ada kekuatan nak bukak cerita dan borak borak pasal pengalaman terjun bungy seketika tadi.

Perasaan memang cuak ! Masa nak terjun dan tengok bawah tu rasa macam .. Ya Allah apa benda la aku buat ni.

Tapi bila dah terjun, rasa sekejap sangat. Bila tali tertarik tersentap, badan rasa sedap pulak. Macam baru lepas kena urut. 

Dan yang lepas lepas tu, just OK dan perasaannya memang mencabar tapi seronok.

Nanti kalau ada masa boleh buat skydiving, atau Nevis Swing. Tapi aku still berazam nak buat skydiving. Insha Allah later later lah kalau ada rezeki dan kesempatan ! Frankly, terjun bungy agak cuak sebab memang free fall sorang sorang. 

Cuma bila bercakap tentang kos.. Hmmm.. Sekali seumur hidup boleh la cuba kot !

Perjalanan di teruskan lagi. Nampak lembu lembu daging NZ ni. Dia orang cepat je lari kalau nampak kita berhenti.

Perjalanan dari Cromwell tadi menuju ke Omarama memakan masa lebih kurang 1 jam setengah dengan jarak sejauh 100 KM. Di sebabkan hujan masih turun jadi IH memandu slow slow jer lah.

Di pertengahan jalan, kami melintasi Lindiss Pass yang sangat scenic ni.

Laluan melintasi Lindis Pass

Memang geram nak berhenti. Nasib baik ada lookout point dan kami stop sekejap di situ untuk ambik ambik gambar.

This alpine area of tall, tussock-covered mountains is beautiful in every season, but with a dusting of snow it's particularly enchanting.

Waitaki Distirct

View

Penanda jalan

Lindis Pass (elevation 971 m) is located in the South Island of New Zealand.

It lies between the towns of Cromwell in Central Otago and Omarama in North Otago, on the main inland route to the Mackenzie Basin in the Canterbury Region.

The pass lies between the valleys of the Lindis and Ahuriri Rivers.

State Highway 8 transverses the pass on its route from the Mackenzie Basin to Central Otago. The pass is the highest point on the South Island's state highway network, and the second highest point on the New Zealand state highway network, after the Desert Road (SH 1) in the Central North Island. Despite this, it is not considered one of the alpine passes as it located in the dry interior of the South Island.

Tempat dia memang lawa

Masa kami berhenti di sini siap flurries turun. Bertambah sejuk

Sempat jugak singgah tepi jalan nak terkencccc

Laluan selepas tu pun lawa lawa. Ada sungai dan pokok pokok dengan daun daun baru nak bertukar warna. Tapi tak de tempat nak berhenti.

Kalau lintas kawasan ni, cuba cuba lah stop by untuk menikmati panorama di sini.

Tak lama lepas tu perjalanan di teruskan dan kami sampai di Omarama.

Singgah kejap isi minyak dan tukar driver

Motel dan motorhome jenis lama

Perjalanan seterusnya adalah dari Omarama ke Lake Tekapo.

Kalau di ikutkan Lake Tekapo adalah destinasi terakhir kami hari ni.

Aku drive, IH dengan BW membuta. Sampai satu simpang, aku nampak sign.

Lake Ohau !

Tengok masa macam masih awal. Masih boleh cilok dan merayau ikut suka.

Aku drive je masuk ke dalam ikut kawasan tu. Adalah dalam 20 KM dari persimpangan jalan tadi.

Tengok view. Macam menarik juga !

Jauh jugak nak masuk ke dalam. Jalan sunyi dan tak de sebarang kenderaan. Tapi bila dekat kawasan tasik tu nampak view agak menarik. Cuma cuaca je mendung dan berkabus.

Pelangi

Lake Ohau

Cuaca masih mendung nak hujan

Dan malangnya kawasan tu jalan mati !

Macam ada few lodge pastu jalan ntah tak tau tuju ke mana. Barbara pun dah mula menjerit jerit.

Nasib la mood aku baik, kalau tak memang aku selam Barbara tu dalam tasik Ohau ni. Biar dia rasa sejuk di kala api panas membara !

Di pinggir Lake Ohau

Lake Ohau

Lake Ohau is a glacial lake in the Mackenzie Basin of New Zealand's South Island. It is fed by the Hopkins and Dobson rivers, which have their headwaters in the Southern Alps, and has its outflow in the Ohau River, which itself feeds into the Waitaki River hydroelectric project.

Ohau is the smallest of three roughly parallel lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Tekapo). It covers 60 km².

The Ohau ski field is located close to the southwestern shore of the lake.

Kalau musim spring atau awal summber maybe banyak lupins di sini

Ada gunung di sebalik Lake Ohau ni

Bye bye Ohau !

Kami singgah sekejap. Kerah IH dengan BW bangun untuk sesi photoraphy dia orang. 

Dia orang OK je. Bangun ambik gambar lebih kurang dan masuk kereta. Sambung tidur semula.

Then aku drive lagi keluar ke jalan besar.

Dan meneruskan perjalanan ke Lake Tekapo

Singgah sekejap di Lake Pukaki

View tak terang sebab cuaca mendung dan berawan

Pemanduan terakhir

Sebelum sampai di Lake Tekapo semula

Terus ke penginapan yang sama

Penginapan dengan view lawa

Lake Tekapo di petang hari

Dan petang tu kami di temani kesejukan di Lake Tekapo.

Dan kesejukkan di Tekapo berterusan sehingga malam.

Dapat teh panas memang mengancam

Makan malam dihidangkan. Service oleh Beyonce yang masih mampu bertahan !

Dan konon malam tu nak pegi ke Church of Good Shepherd di Lake Tekapo untuk stargazing.

Kami keluar pukul 10 malam. Cuaca punya lah sejuk. BW siap bawak comforter dan selimut hotel lagi.

Duduk nak skodeng bintang bintang di sini.

Misi gagal !

Haram tak nampak apa apa pun. 

Ada sorang makcik cina ni tanya IH pukul berapa patutnya datang kalau nak tengok milky way. IH bantai cakap datang balik midnight nanti kalau nak tengok. Hahaha. Mintak mintak makcik tu tak dengar cakap IH sebab aku yakin memang takkan nampak sampai ke sudah.

Bintang tak der. Awan mendung mungkin melindungi semuanya. Ditambah dengan suhu yang teramatlah sejuk. Tak de rezeki nak ber star gazing dan usha milky way di Lake Tekapo ni.

Lagipun kat skrin hp aku dah ada gambar milky way. Tengok sini je sudah ! * mati lah

Sedikit kecewa dan patah hati. On the way balik bilik, ada sekumpulan makcik makcik dari mainland kot lepak ramai-ramai kat luar masing-masing berkelubung dengan selimut bilik.

Balik bilik, tarik selimut dan tidur sampai pagi............. 

Sejuk sejuk ni, tu lah aktiviti paling best untuk di nikmati.......

Esok hari terakhir di sini, esok kami akan berangkat pergi meninggalkan South Island ni. 

............. It is end of the road. Macam sayang lagi. Macam masih tak puas lagi.............. !

Girl, you know we belong together

I have no time for you to be playing with my heart like this

You'll be mine forever, baby, you just see

We belong together

And you know that I'm right

Why do you play with my heart?

Why do you play with my mind?

Said we'd be forever

Said it'd never die

How could you love me and leave me

And never say goodbye?

When I can't sleep at night without holding you tight

Girl, each time I try I just break down and cry

Pain in my head oh I'd rather be dead

Spinnin' around and around

Although we've come to the end of the road

Still I can't let you go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you

Come to the end of the road

Still I can't let you go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you

Girl, I know you really love me,

You just don't realize

You've never been there before

It's only your first time

Maybe I'll forgive you, hmm

Maybe you'll try

We should be happy together

Forever, you and I

Will you love me again like you loved me before

This time I want you to love me much more

This time instead just come to my bed

And, baby, just don't let me down

Although we've come to the end of the road

Still I can't let go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you

Come to the end of the road

Still I can't let go

It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you

Girl, I'm here for you

All those times at night when you just hurt me

And just run out with that other fella

Baby, I knew about it, I just didn't care

You just don't understand how much I love you do you?

I'm here for you

I'm not out to go out and cheat on you all night

Just like you did, baby, but that's all right

Hey, I love you anyway

And I'm still gonna be here for you 'till my dying day, baby

Right now, I'm just in so much pain, baby

'Cause you just won't come back to me

Will you? Just come back to me

(Lonely)

Yes, baby, my heart is lonely

(Lonely)

My heart hurts, baby

(Lonely)

Yes I feel pain too

Baby, please

This time instead just come to my bed

And, baby, just don't let me down

bersambung.........