Day 3 - Enroute to Mt Cook Village

Well, the main plan today is to drive to Oamaru, about 2.5 hours away from Lake Tekapo. But I couldn't resist not going to Mt Cook Village. So I squeeze this into our itinerary.. :P

It is STILL raining.... after 2 days.. the fear that i will be shooting nothing but dark, miserable, gloomy and depressing images creeps in.. lol..

After driving in the rain for 2 hours, we know that we are near Mt Cook Village. The weather changes very suddenly. The next minute we know, our inner windscreen started to fog. And then, we could hear mini stones hitting our car. Slowly we realised that it's hail stones! Since it's our first encounter with hail stone, we felt excited and a little scared :P

And then, the amazing thing happened as we drove on. IT STARTED TO SNOW!! In summer! You bet we didn't expect it to snow so heavily in matter of minutes! (In fact, we didn't expect it to snow at all!)

We stopped at the road side to take in the shock.. haha.. there was another car right in front of us doing the same thing. Guess we are not alone in the shock.. lol


The snow got heavier and heavier.. So fun and exciting and scary.. :P

After wiping the snow covered windscreen, we decided to turn back. We weren't sure if the car is condition for snow and it's not funny to take risk.. :P