Day 75 | Lake Tekapo
27 December 2022 | 42km
Long distance hikes teach you every day how you can make yourself unhappy when you make your surroundings responsible for your happiness: it’s either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry. Today it will be too windy.
But first things first: the hitch to Lake Pukake is not as easy as we thought. Finally, a young guy heading to Christchurch gives us a ride. “I love you” says a sticker on the board. Must be nice to see that each morning when you get into your car.
The walk of the day is a longer stretch along the lake, followed by an eternally long and boring walk along the Tekapo canal. To make it even worse the wind picks up in the afternoon, full on head wind.
We call some accommodation as soon as we have reception but the entire town of Tekapo seems to be fully booked. Once we finally arrive at 9h15pm all restaurants have already stopped denning food. Not surprised but still disappointed, we use the kitchen of the Lakefront Backpackers to cook our dinner.
It’s dark already and we sneak into the backyard of a school, a nice spot for cowboy camping (sleep without a tent, just sleeping pad and bag).
