This is Real Middle Earth - Lake Ohau

This is RealMiddle Earth

Lake Ohau Quarters

by Rachel Gillespie

“The trips I have taken to the Quarters have been so much fun. with friends, exploring the mountains and lakeside, shooting some pretty epic photos, and also it’s a place that has the most incredible dark skies for astrophotography. ”

Talking with Mel Ainge and Mark Black

The road into Lake Ohau is one of those drives that makes you feel like you are heading to the end of the earth, and you kind of are! At the top of the lake is Lake Ohau Station and situated on the station is the beautiful Lake Ohau Quarters. I have been lucky to stay a few times and for me it is one of those epic places that is hard to describe, you just need to go there to feel it’s magnificence. A few weeks ago I took some of my photography crew up there for a week of true bliss and peaceful adventure.

Surrounded by huge mountains the lake was once a large glacier, the vibe of the area is strong and the scenery is some of the best you will ever see.

There are so many things you can do in the area which makes it even more inviting, one

of my favourite spots is the Temple Valley with Department of Conservations tracks which wind up the Temple Streams looking over the to Southern Alps, also an amazing spot for night sky photography if that’s a past time you enjoy.

Lake Ohau itself is huge and sitting in the hot tub at the Quarters a fav past time watching the sun go down glistening over the lake makes this place what I call REAL real middle earth.

Lake Ohau is a glacial lake fed by the Hopkins and Dobson rivers further up into the headwaters of the Southern Alps, it makes for amazing photography and adventures around the property and looks down toward the well known Ben Ohau mountain range with the magnificent Ben Ohau standing tall at the end of this.