Thursday, September 18, 2014

Queenstown

QUEENSTOWN!!!  I actually climbed up the mountain from the lake to the gondola lookout!

On the hike up there was a ropes course (Queenstown is the capital of adventure sports) and whimsical items along the trail!


Lake Wakatipu is a "double dog-leg" lake."  This is the middle East-West stretch.



Queenstown proper and our campervan site!




The kiwi bird exhibition was neat, but the best part about it for me was watching the birds dive underwater.  Bird butt!

Kiwi are nocturnal so they are housed in a dark house to simulate day time and night time in opposition to the real day time and night time.




Bird Butt!

They also have what is considered the closest species to an ancient dinosaur.

BIRD BUTT!!

One evening we drove over the mountains to Wanaka for an evening movie.  Here's the sunset.  Spectacular!  Even locals were stopping on the side of the road to take photos!





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