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Fall Colors
We just got back from a four-day trip to Queenstown, which is four hours west of Dunedin. Even though the weather is getting chilly, fall is only just coming to Dunedin, if you measure fall by the change in leaves. We had heard that the area around Queenstown has beautiful leaves, so we decided to go and see them. We went to Queenstown for Christmas, so I've already posted some photos of the city. But for a reminder, here are a few more. These first five photos are taken in a Queenstown park, a peninsula that juts out into Lake Wakatipu, so you can see views out towards the lake and also back towards the town.
We heard that the fall colors were supposed to be best around Arrowtown, a half hour from Queenstown, an old gold mining town. The hills above the town had a beautiful range of colors, and you can see them in the next photo.
Arrowtown has a charming shopping street which extends for a long block, with old fashioned buildings from the gold rush, which began in the 1860s and went on for several decades.
A couple hundred yards from the shopping street is the little hollow in the next photo.
And another couple hundred yards away is a small settlement where Chinese miners lived. They arrived in Arrowtown early in the gold rush. The miners of European descent wouldn't let them live in the town, so they had their own area just outside of town. The next photo is the building that housed the Chinese miners' shop, and the one after that is a cabin where a Chinese miner lived. The cabin is partially dug into the hillside. The Chinese miners had some unique methods of diverting the water in the river to expose the riverbed, which enabled them to consistently extract gold in a way that was frustrating to the European miners who didn't do as well. I'm curious what happened to those Chinese miners -- did they stay in New Zealand? The mayor of Dunedin has the last name Chin, and we were wondering if he descended from people who came at the time of the gold rush. Dunedin has many fewer people of Asian descent than Seattle, so it was surprising to have a mayor who appears to be of Chinese descent.
People still pan for gold in the Arrow River that runs through Arrowtown. The next photo shows the river, with the town's skateboard park in the foreground. The following photo is another view of the Arrow River.
Between Arrowtown and Queenstown is some beautiful country with two other rivers running through it. The next four photos were taken in the area between the two towns.
We heard that the fall colors were supposed to be best around Arrowtown, a half hour from Queenstown, an old gold mining town. The hills above the town had a beautiful range of colors, and you can see them in the next photo.
Arrowtown has a charming shopping street which extends for a long block, with old fashioned buildings from the gold rush, which began in the 1860s and went on for several decades.
A couple hundred yards from the shopping street is the little hollow in the next photo.
And another couple hundred yards away is a small settlement where Chinese miners lived. They arrived in Arrowtown early in the gold rush. The miners of European descent wouldn't let them live in the town, so they had their own area just outside of town. The next photo is the building that housed the Chinese miners' shop, and the one after that is a cabin where a Chinese miner lived. The cabin is partially dug into the hillside. The Chinese miners had some unique methods of diverting the water in the river to expose the riverbed, which enabled them to consistently extract gold in a way that was frustrating to the European miners who didn't do as well. I'm curious what happened to those Chinese miners -- did they stay in New Zealand? The mayor of Dunedin has the last name Chin, and we were wondering if he descended from people who came at the time of the gold rush. Dunedin has many fewer people of Asian descent than Seattle, so it was surprising to have a mayor who appears to be of Chinese descent.
People still pan for gold in the Arrow River that runs through Arrowtown. The next photo shows the river, with the town's skateboard park in the foreground. The following photo is another view of the Arrow River.
Between Arrowtown and Queenstown is some beautiful country with two other rivers running through it. The next four photos were taken in the area between the two towns.
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