Day 4 - Queenstown
The fourth day of our time in New Zealand was spent primarily in Arrowtown and Queenstown, before moving on to Twizel for the night
December 2, 2004

001-Mom-Cottage Mom enjoying our cottage/motel in Arrowtown, on the morning of Thursday, December 2, 2004 002-Lupin Lupin 003-Lupin Lupin at our cottage 004-ArrowRiver Arrow River ... it was somewhere near here in this river that Arwen crossed the Fords of Bruinen with Frodo in 005-ArrowRiver Arrow River 006-ArrowRiver Arrow River ... back in the late 1800s and early 1900s there was lots of gold found in this river 007-ArrowRiver Arrow River 008-ShotoverBridge The Edith Cavel Bridge over the Shotover River between Arrowtown and Queenstown 009-Hills Mountains by the Shotover River 010-SHadows Shadows from clouds on the mountains 011-FloodHeight The flood that this sign is referring to was quite severe ... in fact, it washed away one of the sets in 012-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 013-ShotoverJet Shotover Jet, a jet boat that we'd come to ride ... needless to say I was a bit shocked when my parents suggested in the morning that we go for a jet boat ride 014-ShotoverJet Shotover Jet 015-Hills Hills 016-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 017-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 018-ShotoverRiver Shotover River, as viewed from the jet boat ... technically we weren't supposed to bring our cameras on board, but I snuck mine on, though once or twice it got splashed pretty good :-( 019-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 020-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 021-ShotoverRiver Shotover River ... the jet boat was awesome, we were out on the water for 25 minutes or so, going at speeds of 70 km/h (45 mph), mere inches from the rock walls! We also did numerous 360 degree spins that were pretty cool as well 022-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 023-ShotoverBridge Edith Cavel Bridge 024-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 025-ShotoverRiver Shotover River 026-DadMomDavid-ShotoverBridge Dad, Mom & David by the Shotover River & Edith Cavel Bridge 027-DadMomJared-ShotoverBridge Dad, Mom & me by the Shotover River & the Edith Cavel Bridge 028a-LakeWakatipu The Frankton Arm of Lake Wakatipu, viewed from Queenstown 028b-LakeWakatipu Lake Wakatipu 028c-LakeWakatipu Lake Wakatipu and Queenstown 028-LakeWakatipu Lake Wakatipu 029-Queenstown Queenstown 030-Queenstown Queenstown 031-Queenstown Queenstown 032-SkylineGondola Skyline Gondola 033-Queenstown Queenstown, from the Skyline Restaurant 034-Chairlift Chairlift to go even further up the mountain, to the top of the luge area 035-Gondolas Gondolas coming up the mountain 036-Queenstown Queenstown ... The Remarkables, which are the mountains in the distance, are remarkable for their size, shape & beauty, and also because they run directly north-south ... The Remarkables are also used over and over again for different mountain ranges in various scenes in 037-LakeWakatipu Lake Wakatipu 038-QueenstownLakeRemarkables Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu & The Remarkables 039-QueenstownA Queenstown 040-QueenstownB Queenstown is an absolutely gorgeous town, I loved it there, it was probably my favourite place in all of New Zealand 041-QueenstownC Lake Wakatipu 042-QueenstownD Lake Wakatipu 043-QueenstownE Lake Wakatipu 044-MomDad-Queenstown Mom & Dad at Queenstown 045-Jared-Queenstown Did I say that I loved Queenstown? It's so spectacularly scenic! 046-GondolaView View from the gondola as we headed back down the mountain 047-GondolaView Gondola view 048-BungyPlatform A platform for bungy jumping over Queenstown, the adrenaline capital of the world 049-GondolaView Gondola view 050-GondolaView Gondola view 051-Goats Goats down below 052-Vineyard One of many vineyards around Queenstown ... this is about as far south as grapes can grow in the southern hemisphere 053-Road Road 054-Road It was so pretty driving around New Zealand ... actually, since David drove the whole way I was free to take heaps of pictures of the scenery :-) 055-NoStoppingSign New Zealand had heaps of these road signs throughout the country too, and they mean 056-Road Road outside of Queenstown 057-KawarauGorge Kawarau Gorge 058-Road Road 059-Road Road 060-KawarauRiver Kawarau River 061-LowerMegPowerStation Lower Meg Power Station on the Kawarau River 062-KawarauGorge Kawarau Gorge 063-YellowLupinKawarau Yellow Lupin and the Kawarau River 064-RoaringMeg Kawarau River 065-KawarauRiver Kawarau River ... none of us could get over the amazing colour of the water in the rivers and lakes of New Zealand 066-RoadLakeDunstan Road beside Lake Dunstan, a manmade reservoir that was created by damming the Clutha River 067-LakeDunstan Lake Dunstan 068-CluthaRiver Clutha River, just below the Clyde Dam (Clutha is Gaelic for Clyde) 069-ClydeDam Clyde Dam 070-CluthaRiver Clutha River 071-LakeDunstan Lake Dunstan 072-Road Road 073-Road Road 074-LindisPass Lindis Pass, a very dry region of the South Island 075-LindisPass Lindis Pass 076-RoadsideLupin Another reason that driving in New Zealand was so beautiful was that inland on the South Island, particularly on the alpine plateaus east of the Southern Alps Divide, the roadsides were lined with lupin ... it's too bad that the NZ gov't regards lupin as a noxious weed, because it's a beautiful plant 077-RoadsideLupin Roadside lupin 078-Sheep Sheep ... in New Zealand, there are 14 sheep to every person 079-ClayCliffs Clay Cliffs 080-ClayCliffs Clay Cliffs 081-OpenRoad Open road on the Central Plateau 082-Lupin Lupin 083-EndlessLupin Endless lupin ... it was so pretty! 084-Sheep Sheep 085-Norwester A nor'wester blowing over the Southern Alps 086-Sunset A sunset over the Southern Alps from our motel room in Twizel, which as my Lonely Planet guidebook put it, is a

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