Journeying Toward Arrowtown
Te Anau to Queenstown-21.11.2005
We finally leave the Fiordland National Park Hotel and journey on toward Queenstown.
It is raining lightly on the way as we approach Mossburn. We pass fresh snowcapped mountains again as we arrive at Mossburn.
Gordon, our coach driver encourages us to buy an ice-cream at the little store here, he guarantees us that it is the cheapest ice-cream in all of New Zealand. It was a little chilly for me, but Arthur decided at the last minute to try one. Not before crouching in a handy telephone box to take a photo of a huge deer statue that was opposite the shop. It was raining again at the time.
We travel on and come to Kingston. There were a couple of steam trains preparing for a rally after we left there. We took a couple of photos and some video too. After I had videoed the trains, I turned around and behind me were more snow covered mountain tops.
We didn’t stay here long, as we had to keep going to keep to our timetable. As we were leaving, further down the street, was a house with a wheely great fence. And behind this fence was an old stove hob with pots and pans on it too. Another photo opportunity.
We travelled further and passed Lake Wakaripu, at Frankton, on the way. Very pretty.Next stop is Arrowtown. This is an old mining town. It was quite a nice historic town. Lots of little shops and craft shops too. We decided to try the pie shop and ordered the most expensive meat pie I have ever had. It was nice, but not worth the money we paid for it. Arthur was hoping to try a venison pie, but they had sold out of them. Lucky for him as they were just as expensive.
We came across these quaint craft items here at Arrowtown. But again, these were so expensive too.
It is raining lightly on the way as we approach Mossburn. We pass fresh snowcapped mountains again as we arrive at Mossburn.
Gordon, our coach driver encourages us to buy an ice-cream at the little store here, he guarantees us that it is the cheapest ice-cream in all of New Zealand. It was a little chilly for me, but Arthur decided at the last minute to try one. Not before crouching in a handy telephone box to take a photo of a huge deer statue that was opposite the shop. It was raining again at the time.
We travel on and come to Kingston. There were a couple of steam trains preparing for a rally after we left there. We took a couple of photos and some video too. After I had videoed the trains, I turned around and behind me were more snow covered mountain tops.
We didn’t stay here long, as we had to keep going to keep to our timetable. As we were leaving, further down the street, was a house with a wheely great fence. And behind this fence was an old stove hob with pots and pans on it too. Another photo opportunity.
We travelled further and passed Lake Wakaripu, at Frankton, on the way. Very pretty.Next stop is Arrowtown. This is an old mining town. It was quite a nice historic town. Lots of little shops and craft shops too. We decided to try the pie shop and ordered the most expensive meat pie I have ever had. It was nice, but not worth the money we paid for it. Arthur was hoping to try a venison pie, but they had sold out of them. Lucky for him as they were just as expensive.
We came across these quaint craft items here at Arrowtown. But again, these were so expensive too.
There was an area away from the main shopping area that had some quaint old miners huts that were interesting.
It was time now to board the bus again and continue the journey on to Queenstown, passing over the Shotover River on the way into the town.