After last night's downpour (it continued well into the night), we woke up to clear blue skies with a few fluffy white clouds and it remained like that all the way to Twizel.
On the way we stopped at Moeraki to see the "spherical" boulders on the beach.
Nice scenery en route and we arrived at our B&B around 2pm. It is on a farm and there is a direct view of Mount Cook out of our patio door windows (see below).
Spent a relaxing afternoon on our patio in the sunshine before going into Twizel for a meal around 5.30pm.
We then did the 45 minute drive up to The Hermitage, the hotel near the base of Mount Cook. It was a beautiful evening and we stopped a few times on the way to get pictures of Mount Cook (again we were lucky to see it almost cloud free).
We took some more pictures at The Hermitage and then had a drink in the hotel bar waiting for sunset, as our B&B host in Westport had told us that (in the right light) the Mount takes on a pinkish colour. We weren't disappointed, the sunset was great, as per below!
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