• Janet TaylorNew ZealandJanet Taylor
    Stopped for fresh delicious fruit from this market.
    Took the gondola up the mountain in QueenstownView of Queenstown and Lake WakatipuTop of the gondola in Queenstown1914 steamship TSS Earnsclaw. We cruised down Lake Wakatipu for a delicious meal and a farm show.Close up of the EarnsclawOn the beach at the Walter Peak High Country Farm.Local resident at the farm.Amazingly well trained sheep dog demonstrated how she hears the sheep.Sheep shearing demo. Sheep go limp when you put them on their backs.A shagged farm residentView of the farm restaurant as we leftA young lad shoveling coal into the engine. The ship burns one tone of coal an hour.Jon beside the engine room.On the way homeA kite boarder buzzing the steamship!Jon enjoying the neighbourhood swing set. We mostly saw adults using it!The subdivision we stayed in is surrounded by mountains.Lake Wakatipu from just outside the subdivision where we stayed.

    Queenstown

    January 31 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    We stayed in a literal suburb in the Queenstown area for two nights. You might be thinking that a suburb isn't very interesting. You'd be wrong!