Today, after an amazing breakfast at Nichols Garden Centre in Cromwell; highly recommend their cafe, we headed up to The Remarkables Ski Field. Due to the big, out of season snow dump on Tuesday night, there was still some snow around. It is 13 km up to get to the car-park at the base of the ski field. My son, Adam has loaned up his Nissan Safari to use while we are here. It's dirty, rattly and makes lots of strange noises, but he's told us to ignore those. There were photo opportunities on every corner of the drive up and many in between. Below are only a few of them.
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| Frankston Arm of Lake Wakatipu |
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| Looking up the Kingston Arm of Lake Wakatipu |
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| Pete taking photos with Lake Wakatipu in the back ground |
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| Kawarau River |
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| Lake Hayes with Arrowtown at the far end under the snow capped hills |
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| The road up the The Remarkables |
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| Footprints in the snow - not mine! |
On the way down we stopped for some more photos and I found a decent patch of snow, so waited to ambush Pete when he came back to the vehicle with snow balls. I won - I got him 3 times he only got me once, although his one filled my ear up with snow.
We then headed up to Glenorchy and Paradise, but that's for another blog post.
Lyndie, I just loved that part of NZ when I was there many moons ago. It is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you Chel, even the barren hillsides are beautiful in their own unique way. I do miss my home country, especially being able to walk through the countryside and not worry about something biting and killing you. Cheers Lyndie
DeleteNZ is so beautiful. Those photos look like paintings.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I can get them printed and sell them for lots of lovely money - yeah right. Thanks for the compliment Kylie. NZ is so gorgeous it is easy to take stunning photos. Cheers Lyndie
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