layers of different tones created an amazing backdrop along state highway 80, mt. cook road which runs parallel to lake pukaki, one of the many jaw-dropping alpine lakes on the mackenzie basin. the terrain, with the distinctive blue colour of the lake is created by glacial flour and fed by the tasman river, nicely complemented by the beige colour of the dry winter grass and the green pines, walled by the distant snow powdered two thumb range and the blue sky, was the closest thing to a heaven on earth my sane eyes and mind could accede. june 2010.

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