Just a short run today from Te Anau to Queenstown. Last bit after you reach Lake Wakatipu is fairly scenic, with a few lookouts to stop and take snaps if you feel inclined.
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| Lake Wakatipu NZ |
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| Lake Wakatipu NZ |
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| Lake Wakatipu NZ |
We found our place easily enough: it's right on the lake just out of the city centre. Pretty damn nice actually, and the view from the picture windows is, well, a picture.
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| View from Villa Del Lago, Queenstown NZ |
We had to go and get food, so we ventured down town, which may have been a mistake: it's just crawling with backpackers and other seedy looking characters. I mean, it's wall to wall people all looking for a free feed or place to stay or some action, or whatever. Bit disappointing really, it could be such a beautiful town with lovely parks and walkways right on the lake. But wait, there's worse, namely the old camp ground, and the new campground which happen to be next to each other. One has a ring of old bachs, really old, dilapidated two room things, all fully occupied.
The new park has about 10,000 camper vans of all sizes parked in it and it just looks awful.
One highlight was watching this mother duck with her 8 chicks trying to get back out on the lake from the pebbly beach.. All but 2 chicks made it, but they just couldn't get over the ripples and ended up back on shore where they flopped down exhausted. Mother duck came back with her brood to rescue them and they retired further up the beach.
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| Ducks. Queenstown NZ |
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| Ducks. Queenstown NZ |
Anyhow, town is not for us so we grabbed our grub and went back to our, by comparison, very ultra luxurious and palatial villa. Its just like the ones on the edge of Lake Garda in Italy, except not 400 years old.
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