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Sunset Hooker Lake

            Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mums!

Hooker Lake is a glacier fed lake in Mt Cook National Park.  The icebergs are created following a carving event off the main glacier.  These icebergs then float down the lake and eventually melt or flow over the outlet stream.  The scene is therefore quite dynamic and the beauty of this is that no 2 visits to this location will ever produce the same shot as the icebergs come and go and produce varying shapes and sizes in different parts of the lake.

The hike to this location is about 11 kms return from the campground however it really is quite easy being on a well constructed track and requiring only a moderate elevation gain.

I had the pleasure of Christian Klepp’s company on this hike, a very talented German photography based in Hamburg who I had previously bumped into at Tasman Lake.  Be sure to check out some of his amazing shots here on Flickr.  Both of us were pretty stoked to get this wonderful pink light over Mt Cook as the sun set!

I intend to post images from my trip in roughly the order that I visited the various locations.  I do however have a few images to share from both the glacial lakes of Mt Cook and the starfish colony of Motukiekie beach located near Greymouth on the west coast .  I therefore thought that I would mix up those shots by posting one from each location now and thereafter return to a more chronological order as I relive my journey and share it with everyone here!

Thanks for looking and I always appreciate hearing your thoughts / comments 

Taken with a Pentax 645Nii medium format film camera and fuji velvia 50 film.

Taken in: New Zealand / Canterbury / Mount Cook (show map)

Taken on: August 21, 2016

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