Lake Dunstan

Monday and walkies with the “B” team which today took us to Cromwell, about 30 minutes drive from Wanaka, where we walked along the lake side ending up at Old Cromwell Town for lunch. Old Cromwell Town is what remains of the original town after the river was dammed and Lake Dunstan was formed where before there had just been fruit orchards. This was of course hugely controversial at the time but in those days there was no resource management act and if the Government decided the country needed more electric generation it just did it, warts and all. New Zealand’s envied position of renewable electricity generation all happened at that time and it is a very good thing that it did as these days there is almost no way any more hydro generation could be built as the conservationists would march to stop it. It is all a mute point anyway as we have and are still developing wind generation and the load demand is not there anyway.
Lake Dunstan is now a very considerable resource in its’ own right and from my view (about 14 inches off the ground) has been a terrific outcome AND the water tastes grrreat.
After the walk THEY had coffee at Pisa Moorings a small development on the lake side. The Boss tried a peppermint hot chocolate and came back to Suzz smelling of it. Disgusting! Acyclinggranny did too so Suzz was totally contaminated. I decided to ZZZZ and ignore everything.

Like Chocolate fish, larger is good