Surprise, surprise, it rained when we left Haast but that made our day. As we worked our way up the winding road to the pass the clouds loomed lower and water gushed out of the mountains on either side. Water falls plummetted into culverts beside the road or thundered under the bridges, only just able to cope with the shear magnitude of the torrents.
As you looked up silver threads poured down the mountain sides. It seemed that the earth had just become so waterlogged that it burst at the seams. The film 'The Piano', featuring endless downpours, impenetrable vegetation and steep mountain slopes barely did it justice.
Then we crested the pass and the sun came out. It appears that one side of the mountain gets the rain to spare the other. Now we were headed east towards Wanaka, to the land of lakes and sunshine.
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| Water pouring down mountainside and under road |
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| Come prepared |
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| Waterlogged landscape |
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