Mountain Road

On the way down the Remarkables Mountain Road on Sunday (4 days after Wednesday's snow to lake level):

Lake Hayes Estate in the foreground, looking towards Coronet Peak

Snow Glorious Snow part 2..

A short video showing the big fat flakes falling!

Snow Glorious Snow

As you can probably tell from the last photo, it snowed and settled to lake level on Wednesday morning this week. We woke up at about 6:30am to see the rain turn to snow and within half an hour it was building up on the roads. By 8am they had closed the schools for the day and were telling everyone to keep off the roads unless necessary. The rain had frozen under the snow creating a layer of sheet ice underneath the snow, making driving conditions dangerous. So we did as we were told and stayed home.

Terrible!

Here are a few photos of the snow.

Our Christmas Card house:

Not such a great day to hang the washing out!

Greg on the "Beach" across the road from home


Andrea on the path through to the beach

Unfortunately, at about 10am, the sun came out and just as quickly as it had built up, the snow on the roads turned to slush and it was safe to drive again so we had to go to work.

There's still snow on our backyard tonight (Friday night) and over much of Queenstown - just not on the roads thank goodness.

Beach Weather

It was such a nice morning, Greg decided to take his breakfast onto the front porch and watch the sun come up....

Red sky in the morning.....

So, we left off with a shot of the Remarkables at sunset. This time it's sunrise (Friday morning on the way to work). It's one of the few advantages of the short days at this time of year - we get to see sunrise on the way to work and sunset on the way home!

This first photo is looking towards the Crown Range from by the airport

This one, obviously, is the Remarkables (taken from Frankton Road, which is the main road as you drive into town along the lakeside)

And after Burton almost sitting on the heater in our last post, we're pleased to say the fire is most definitely up and running again... and as you'll see below, Burton is pretty pleased about it all. Happy? Definitely. Modest? Not so much.