Well, the best laid plans! I thought we would be able to keep up with blog postings, the the "fast and furious" action of a vacation week has us flitting around with no time to "reflect." Just post and move on! Queenstown is beautiful - way tooo much on the tourist side. The tourist bring a need for great cafes and food, so not to complain as we gobble whitebait cakes and drinking espresso while watching the ever-ever-changing light on the lake.
The road sign to skippers is not kidding! Once you pass this sign there is NO turnaround for 8 km. I would never drive that road. Peter's Toyota did fine, and the mining at Skippers was interesting. We had the place to ourselves since the river was up - no boating. Wink's son was working on the jet boats and showed us his drive units and hemi engines. Maybe next trip.
In the final set of picasa's from Queenstown details our car rental and drive to Glenornky and to the terminus of Bruce and Kiri's Routeburn track. The weather grounded our flight to Milford, so we grabbed a car and went north. IT was one of the "best" days so far. There are some pics of the wetlands at the mouth of the Dart and our discovery of the fern and Beech forrests of the Routeburn. We were aglow in anticipation of Bruce and Kiri's trip. Wow (another maybe next trip).
The Christchurch images are from a weekend day in the city centre with hake, Budda lunch, and Egypt solidarity demonstration. So nice to have a cosmo ciy center and we will visit again next week for the festival of flowers.
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The future looks bright, time traveler!
ReplyDeletepretty picures mom! looks like you guys are having fun! :)
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