Couldn't resist an early start to catch the sun coming up over Lake Wakatipu, the weather reports looked great and I did my homework for the location using Google Earth. Turned out pretty good, check out the blog. Got the usual strange looks from the early morning joggers and dog walkers!
I actually ended up on the lake beach on the golf course, you couldn't find a more picturesque situation for a golf course if you tried! Apparently the bus load of Japanese tourists that turned up at 7.30 am to play the course also thought so!!!
Back to the motel for breakfast and pick Deb up and head up to the cable car that takes you up 500 metres of one of the local peaks to a local lookout point. Deb is getting blase about these cable cars now, although she still refused to do the short ski lift to the top of the luge track they have up there. Great view of the lake and Queenstown below, well worth the trip. You can also have dinner up there and catch the sunset but we had other things to do and rain was forecast for that day so it was unlikely we could get a decent view later on.
Took a ride out in the afternoon to visit a view spots, generally just had an easy afternoon to chill a bit. Then in the evening I treated Deb to gourmet fish and chips on the lake front! Followed by a visit to a bar where everything is made of ice and the temperature is maintained at a fairly constant -7 degrees! Well and truly chilled now!!!
Eventually it did rain today, not until we had got back to the motel. First rain for 11 days, not bad going so far!
I actually ended up on the lake beach on the golf course, you couldn't find a more picturesque situation for a golf course if you tried! Apparently the bus load of Japanese tourists that turned up at 7.30 am to play the course also thought so!!!
Back to the motel for breakfast and pick Deb up and head up to the cable car that takes you up 500 metres of one of the local peaks to a local lookout point. Deb is getting blase about these cable cars now, although she still refused to do the short ski lift to the top of the luge track they have up there. Great view of the lake and Queenstown below, well worth the trip. You can also have dinner up there and catch the sunset but we had other things to do and rain was forecast for that day so it was unlikely we could get a decent view later on.
Took a ride out in the afternoon to visit a view spots, generally just had an easy afternoon to chill a bit. Then in the evening I treated Deb to gourmet fish and chips on the lake front! Followed by a visit to a bar where everything is made of ice and the temperature is maintained at a fairly constant -7 degrees! Well and truly chilled now!!!
Eventually it did rain today, not until we had got back to the motel. First rain for 11 days, not bad going so far!
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