Around Wanaka

We'd spent some time in Wanaka in 2009 and came to like the place very much. It's often characterized as a pint-sized Queenstown, not on steroids. Part of Wanaka's charm lies, however, in its not trying to be a Queenstown. Just a friendly little place, with all the amenities, in a killer setting and with access to much more. Our stay there was cut short to three days, and I didn't get hardly any shots of the town, but we'll be back through in a couple weeks, and I'll do better.

Lake Wanaka

With its backdrop of Mt. Aspiring and Mt. Aspiring National Park

Up closer

Wanaka is far more a family place than Queenstown; the Glendhu Holiday Park
lies some miles outside of town but can accommodate as many as 3,500 campers,
families and boaties mostly; it goes on for more than a kilometer of the huge
lake's shore; we spent one wet night there, in a cabin

Across the highway, a sea of sheep

Back in the campground

Tawana and Wes: didn't we borrow one like this from you
in c. 1969? 

Back in Wanaka town, at the huge athletic fields by the lake