Salmon Farm & Fruit Orchard

Leaving the National Park, we made two stops on the way back to Queenstown, a salmon farm and a fruit orchard.

The salmon farm was located right on the river and there they have tanks where they grow the salmon, a fresh salmon store, and a restaurant. I got a beer and some spicy salmon sushi.

At the orchard, I walked through the peach grove, looked at the fresh produce, and bought some dried apricots and some fresh fruit cream. Fruit cream is like ice cream but fresher and whirled in the blender like a flurry with your choice of fresh fruit. I chose banana and "hokey pokey".

"Hokey Pokey is a classic New Zealand ice cream featuring creamy vanilla base mixed with small, crunchy lumps of honeycomb toffee."

First you choose whether you want ice cream or ice yogurt base. I chose yogurt and it definitely has a tart yogurt flavor to it. Then you choose cup or a cone. Since we were getting back in the van, I chose cup. Then you chose one or two flavors. They put it all in the blender, whirl it around and then serve it. It was very yummy. The honeycomb toffee was crunchy!

Some NZ slang terms....
Chur means thank you or hello, like cheers. thanks, cool, yes, awesome, or all good.

Mana is the spirit or essence of a person or thing. "That person has really good mana." Then there's the mana wave. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL4I1rlSAaS/?igs…

"Choice"- something was really good. That was choice. Or that was "primo".

"Yeah no". It's a polite way to say no.

If someone died, you say they "carted".

If someone is very drunk, they are "munted", meaning wasted.

Flip flops are "jandals".

A cooler is called a "chilly bin".
Mate is cuz

Convenient store is called the "dairy".

"Ay" which sounds like "ha" means true dat, a way off agreeing with a statement. This morning I made a comment that I loved the song playing in the van, and Chris said "Ay (ha)". I was clueless. I thought he was trying to name the song's artist, but... yeah no.

"Bogan" is a New Zealand redneck; one who is lower class, drives a truck and drinks beer.

Some places I want to go...
Kiwi Park Queenstown
The Sundeck Rooftop Bar
World Bar free silent disco on Wednesday night.Read more