Just as well too, as we had a lovely if not long drive from Omaru to Queenstown, our base for the next few days of adrenaline fun!
Upon leaving Omaru, we firstly drove ourselves through Rural Agricultural land, however, this soon disappeared and we headed into the mountains, with proper Lord of the Rings style scenery, as this first photo shows:
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| Our first 'Lord of the Rings' Photo |
We continued our long old drive up into the mountains, occasionally stopping where the mood took us, or in the case of Bones and it's petrol sucking ability, wherever he wanted us to stop! Gift Shops, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, you name it we stopped there...even getting photos of how far we had to go, about an hour of driving up here if I'm not mistaken:
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| Antone know how far to Queenstown? |
On our approach, along with a vast number and length of road works, we stumbled upon AJ Hacket Bungee Jumping at Karawau Bridge...the original Tourist jump and where we stayed only briefly, as we were to return soon!
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| Amanda and Neil at the Bungee Experience |
So we felt a bit sick knowing what we were going to be doing, then headed onwards into Queenstown, and what a place by the way! A beautiful little town on the shores of a lake, with the Remarkables rising out of the water up into the sky. It's quite difficult to explain how amazing it really is, I'm hoping these photos may do it for me:
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| The Remarkables & The Lake |
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| The Remarkables |
We managed to find the campsite, a rather large number but one that had room for us for the two nights we planned to stay there, and decided to explore the town, and start the gifts / souvenir shopping. A lot of it was really chintzy, but it was fun all the same!
We finished the day with a lovely meal in a pub downtown. Oh and a few beers to get us to sleep with all the excitement and adrenaline to come!
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| Supping a pre-bedtime pint in Queenstown! |
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