I have pretty much just been sleeping since I got to Tekapo. My body is falling apart. My spine feels like it is disintegrating. I am getting sharp pains in my ribs if I take a deep breath and I have strained something in my neck. The only things still ok are my nicely plucked eyebrows.
Yesterday after sleeping in the morning and afternoon and existing on only a crunchie for lunch, I got up and went into the lounge. There was a man there dressed suspiciously like a pilot. He asked me something and after repeating it several times (my brain is so tired) I realised what he was saying. It was 4.30 and there was a 50 minute flight to Mount Cook about to go and would I like to go for half price because they only had two people booked in so far. I had been planning on doing it later on in the week, which would have cost $280 (100 pounds) so to get it for $140 (50 pounds) sounded great. I woke up a bit, grabbed my stuff and got a lift out to the airport by said pilot.
I had the most fantastic flight. We went over Lake Tekapo which looks even more gorgeous from the air, especially where the river feeds into it. We also went over several huge glaciers, Mount Cook and the Mackenzie plains, where glaciers once deposited huge rocks. I have to say I was TERRIFIED in such a small aircraft. It was a fairly bumpy flight, but I got to sit next to the pilot which was so much fun. I had a much bigger window than the people consigned to the back.
It was a magical, if unexpected end to the day.
I have had two terrible snorers in my room, but thankfully they have gone today. I woke one up on the first night because it was so bad (up until then myself and another girl in the room had tried everything, banging the beds, shaking them, coughing. When one stopped snoring, the other started and we were going insane). Last night I located one ear plug so it was a night of shoving it in one ear and then when I wanted to turn over shoving it in the other one, which is not so good for dropping off to sleep.
I am going to go to some outdoor hot pools today and hopefully get a massage. I can't upload photos on this computer, otherwise I would because I have taken so many.
There was some idiot investment banker here last night, slagging off Lake Tekapo and expecting everyone to join in. Basically because there are no clubs in the area. He was so spoilt. The beauty of the lake just hadn't registered with him. He was so sleazy too. eurgh. Some travellers just astonish me.
