Lake Tekapo and wild flowering lupins Sticker

Lake Tekapo, South Island, New Zealand. Wild flowering Lupins ? The story goes that many years ago an American Artist wanted "more colour" in her landscape paintings and so scattered thousands of Lupin seeds. Birds and wildlife did the rest, and now, in springtime,the whole region is covered with a stunning blanket of these wildflowers. Lake Tekapo is about two and a half to three hours drive south-west of Christchurch. The township faces north across the remarkable turquoise coloured lake to the mountainous drama of the Southern Alps. Lake Tekapo is given its intense milky-turquoise hue by fine rock-flour, dust ground by glacial movement and held in suspension by the lake's waters. A short walk is to the famous Church of the Go...