Queenstown Hill, 2014

Another day we decided to hike up Queenstown Hill, which affords great views and also some needed conditioning. We did the same hike in 2009, and, although much was changed, much also was the same.

The lift up the other hill toward Launch Control (bungy,
parasailing, other Kiwi delights)

SS Earnslaw belches its way across the lake toward Q-town

The great Elven gate to the hiking path on Queenstown Hill:
"speak, tourist, and enter"

People have built numerous small cairns at one of the switch-backs

And even a Fairy House (Penelope note)

The poisonous pizza mushrooms are still there

As are pretty flowers

And dark woods

It has become traditional, we have read, to do a "Birth of
Venus" pose from the Basket of Dreams sculpture atop the
hill; well, why not? Botticelli would be proud...

And then gaze upon the Remarkables

And the lake