Friday, February 21, 2014

Queenstown Again, 2014

So we left Te Anau about February 9, finished with the Fiordlands, and ready to head north. We stopped for a day in Queenstown, to shop for a few odds and ends (ask me about my All Blacks jersey deal) and also to walk through the old city park, which occupies a peninsula jutting out into the lake. Beautiful place.
But first, still in Te Anau, in time to see the Morgan Tour of
New Zealand, 2014; nice looking old cars...
















And further still in Te Anau, a remembrance of things to
come...in a little more than two months we'll be setting up
house-keeping in Paris...

















At the marina in Queenstown, the latest in contrived extreme
aquatic adventure
















In the Queenstown city park




















Looking back to the city center















The Robert Falcon Scott memorial (see the great old post-
WWII British film Scott of the Antarctic; listen to Vaughn
Williams' great Sinfonia Antarctica...)

















Stirring the hearts of every Englishman....















Among many other things, the Queenstown city park has a
folf course...memories of Missoula
















An horizontal elm in the large rose garden















Lawn bowling society command and control center















Pride of place, however, goes to the several
Cupressaceae California, Sequoiadendron
Gigantea Wellingtonia





















Thus




















And a grand old lady Monkey Puzzle, staple
of many a Victorian garden





















We spent the night at a DOC campground on a lake in the
mountains a few miles west of Queenstown


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