Jan 20, 2026 North Lake Wanaka

We stayed closer to home today, looking for waterfalls and scenery closer to the north end of Lake Wanaka. We didn’t find any photogenic waterfalls, but we had great views!

A view of Mt. Aeolus in the Southern Alps. Often mistaken for Mt. Aspiring further south and west, not visible from this valley.

A painting in our B&B, very similar!

Views of the north end of Lake Wanaka. The top picture is of the brushy area where the Makarora river enters the lake, from the vantage point of a picnic table at a little boat ramp into the lake. The bottom picture is from a vantage point above the lake, looking down at the closed Boundary Creek Campground on the rocky peninsula created by Boundary Creek depositing debris into the lake.

A real fixer-upper near Lake Wanaka!

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