14May06
The drive today was from Te Anua heading east over to Mossburn and Five Rivers and then North on Hwy 6 on up to Queenstown. We stopped at a café in Five Rivers for tea and decided that it needs to be mentioned in the itinerary for future trips. Since it’s about half way it’s a good spot for a stop for tea with the mandatory scones with it. They also have some nice art displayed for sale. Heading north from there we stopped at the Kingston Flyer terminal in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Kingston. The Flyer is a beautiful old steam engine and train that does excursions. The bartender in the café there said that the engine had been put away until October. One of the other couples stopped there and talked to someone else and told that it just wasn’t running that day and were invited to take a look at it in the train barn. It had been used for something and was still heated up. Guess that I just talked to the wrong person.
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Just north of Kingston Hwy 6 follows the east side of Lake Wakatipu for about 40kms. Another beautiful drive with the highway following the shoreline up on the side of the Remarkable Mountains. It was a beautiful day with some sunshine, some rain, some snow, and even a double rainbow.
In the evening we rode the gondola up to Bob’s Peak overlooking Queenstown and ate at the Skyline Restaurant. Everyone had a great time indulging in all the foods and treats on the buffet. Since it was snowing up on the mountain there was no opportunity to see any southern lights like we saw last year.
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