Arrowtown & Milford Sound

Queenstown is well renowned in New Zealand for its plethora of adventures for adrenaline junkies. On our way there we made a toilet pit-stop at the site of the first commercial bungy jump operator, A.J.Hackett. Seeing how terrified their punters look we probably could have picked a better place to stop for the loo. We took a walk onto the brigde and peered over but a lack of cash and guts prevented us from taking the plunge ourselves. After what seemed a mammoth drive we finally arrived in Queenstown only to immediately leave. In contrast to the quiet, empty spaces we’d seen everywhere else in New Zealand, Queenstown was totally congested and too much for Helen to bear (must be her age!). So off we went to nearby village of Arrowtown; originally a gold mining settlement. This brought us straight back to the New Zealand we’d become accustomed too. Autumn colours had just arrived so we made the most of the scenary, tramping it up big time. Check out the super-bumpkin campervan we spotted! Perhaps we’ll get one of those for our second honeymoon.

Just a bit to the west of Arrowtown, but another big drive due to some ill-placed mountains are glacier carved fjords of Milford Sound. We took the obligatory cruise and it certainly didn’t disappoint as you can see from the snaps. There is so much beautiful scenery here we’re not sure how Mount Judd will compare when we’re back home.

1 comment so far

Dad
April 8th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

love the photo of the pregnant aircraft!

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