We had been watching the weather forecasts closely for several days and were concerned that we might not have been able to get through from Central Otago to Geraldine on Thursday. So on Monday morning we made the decision to leave on Tuesday. It meant a bit of a rush to finish off some of the jobs as we thought we had another two days. One such job was disposing of the poplar prunings and the two days of rain hadn't helped.
We awoke to a beautiful day on Tuesday but it wasn't long until the fog closed in. We managed to get all of our gear packed the bus ready for our next journey. We needed our suitcases and contents for our trip to Australia, as well as food and fuel our for road trip to Geraldine. We got away at mid- day and drove into sunshine by Cromwell. This stayed with us all the way to the Lindis Pass where we parked up and had a late lunch.
We spent the night on the shores of Lake Pukaki and although there was a view of the mountains when we arrived it was short lived and the fog descended on us. We headed off again by 9am as we were keen to get over Burkes Pass in case the storm was closer than we thought. There was plenty of snow on the ground between Tekapo and Burkes Pass but this was the remnants of Sunday's event. We have never been on that road when it has been so quiet. I think you could count the number that cars that came towards on two hands.
We were very pleased to get settled at Mum and Dad's in Geraldine. We watched the weather forecasts and the panic buying on the news and were glad we had made the decision to arrive early. After listening to the radio and all road closures out of Central Otago this morning and seeing the ground covered in snow this morning confirmed this decision.
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