A lake that breathes

April 2011

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April 2011

Bobs Cove, Lake Wakatipu / easy It’s warm and still as we descend from the roadside on the Queenstown-Glenorchy route, through regenerating forest to the horseshoe-shaped Bobs Cove on the northern shore of Lake Wakatipu, north Otago. The lake surface is taut, like a silk sheet, ripples reflecting the light beamed into the bay though […]
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