Happy New Year
Happy New Year everyone.......anyone?
New Year's eve, the bells, were spent in Queenstown. The place has just filled up to the rafters since Xmas as the school holidays get into full swing. There is probably ten times as many people here as were here at Xmas. Every hotel sold out every parking spot taken every bar and cafe full.
Queenstown Hogmanay consisted of a shockingly bad cover band and a very impressive fireworks display in the lake. Highlight of the evening has to be seeing someone drop their camera over the side of the pier though.
The other evening we took a romantic cruise across the lake in the TSS Earnslaw. About 40 minutes across then a sheep dog display, don't worry Roddy I got an autographed DVD.
A couple more attempts at fishing have proved fruitless though. Last night in Queenstown tonight then we're off tothe Otago peninsula (where Dunedin is) to hopefully catch a glimpse of the only mainland albatrosses (i'm sure thats not the plural) in the world. Then we're heading off down the Catlins Coast. Three hostels along the coast, two nights in each (although I'll be testing out the new tent tomorrow night). The Hostel we're hoping to stay in on Friday/Saturday says you can watch the porpoises play in the surf from the sofa so it could provide some distraction from the TV and watching stories of temperatures in England getting as low a freezing, how do they survive it.
After the Catlins we're going to Fiordland. That should be a highlight of any trip.
Anyway that's all for now. Hope all your new years are as good as mine is going to be.
New Year's eve, the bells, were spent in Queenstown. The place has just filled up to the rafters since Xmas as the school holidays get into full swing. There is probably ten times as many people here as were here at Xmas. Every hotel sold out every parking spot taken every bar and cafe full.
Queenstown Hogmanay consisted of a shockingly bad cover band and a very impressive fireworks display in the lake. Highlight of the evening has to be seeing someone drop their camera over the side of the pier though.
The other evening we took a romantic cruise across the lake in the TSS Earnslaw. About 40 minutes across then a sheep dog display, don't worry Roddy I got an autographed DVD.
A couple more attempts at fishing have proved fruitless though. Last night in Queenstown tonight then we're off tothe Otago peninsula (where Dunedin is) to hopefully catch a glimpse of the only mainland albatrosses (i'm sure thats not the plural) in the world. Then we're heading off down the Catlins Coast. Three hostels along the coast, two nights in each (although I'll be testing out the new tent tomorrow night). The Hostel we're hoping to stay in on Friday/Saturday says you can watch the porpoises play in the surf from the sofa so it could provide some distraction from the TV and watching stories of temperatures in England getting as low a freezing, how do they survive it.
After the Catlins we're going to Fiordland. That should be a highlight of any trip.
Anyway that's all for now. Hope all your new years are as good as mine is going to be.
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