Te Anau to Haast Pass

First we backtracked from Te Anau to Queenstown, stopping at the Five Rivers Cafe on SH 6. We are enjoying stopping mid-morning at a cafe for coffee. They rarely have our kind of coffee (which they call filter coffee) but I am developing a taste for flat white. There are sheep in the fields beyond the signs (of course):

Farther north on SH 6, but still south of Queenstown, we stopped again at Lake Wakatipu. This is looking back south:

Just east of Queenstown we left SH 6 on a shortcut to Wanaka. The view of the surrounding countryside from Crown Terrace was impressive:

At Wanaka we rejoined SH 6 and stayed on it the rest of the day. We had lunch at the Lake Hawea Lookout. The mountains are the Mckerrow Range and the Young Range:

Just after Lake Hawea we came to Lake Wanaka. The mountains at center-left are the Minaret Peaks:

Mount Aspiring is not visible in the photo above, but would be behind and perhaps slightly to the right of the Minaret Peaks if it were. Mount Aspiring National Park is between Fiordland National Park to the south and the Westland and Mount Cook National Parks to the north. Haast Pass is in Mount Aspiring National Park.

Traveling as we are, we meet many other tourists. At the campground yesterday we met a couple from Denmark. Today at the Lake Wakatipu lookout we met two couples from Toronto, and at the Crown Terrace lookout we met a couple from Israel. All interesting people.