Lake Pukaki

We arrived home not long ago after a wonderful trip down south. Today was a bit like the day we left with the odd heavy shower about, which cleaned the car well! Silvester our cat was pleased to see us home again.

Lake Pukaki is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island. The others are Lakes Tekapo and Ohau. All three lakes were created when the terminal moraines of receding glaciers blocked their respective valleys, forming moraine-dammed lakes.

The glacial feed to the lakes gives them a distinctive blue colour, created by glacial flour, the extremely finely ground rock particles from the glaciers.

The lake is now part of the Waitaki hydroelectric scheme. 

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