A lazy day from dawn to dusk. We are staying at a very nice hotel right on the lakefront a few K outside Queenstown. We have a very nice two bedroom unit with a large kitchen and livingroom and a deck outside. The accommodation is especially nice because we are here for five nights,the longest stay of our entire trip.
We booked a tour to Doubtful Sound for Wednesday, a white water rafting trip for tomorrow PM and then headed off by car for Arrowtown, a restored gold mining Village about 15K away. After a few hours touring the museum and wandering the village we had a picnic lunch and headed off on a walk. Back to the hotel by three PM. I went for a brief swim in the lake--temperature seemed at least several degrees colder than the ocean swim the other day. Claire and I cooked supper in and we had a quiet evening here.
Queenstown is the adventure capital of NZ. I find it interesting that in a country as small as NZ there are such distinctly different regions. For tourists the options include bungy jumping, jet boating, white water rafting, skydiving, mountain biking and so forth. Townspeople all look fit and outdoor types.
