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Christmas in Queenstown
Mike, Dave and I spent two nights in Queenstown over Christmas. It's the most popular tourist destination in New Zealand, a glitzy town with the most expensive real estate in the country. The setting is absolutely gorgeous. On Christmas eve, Mike and I took the gondola up the steep hill behind the town.
For those of you who are golfers, the next photo zooms in on the golf course.
From the top of the gondola, you can look to the north and east towards Arrowtown, a charming little town only a few miles away. Yesterday the newspaper said that Bill Gates is spending New Year's in Arrowtown. It felt just like being back in Seattle to have Bill Gates's travels in the newspaper.
The next photo looks down the lake to the southwest. The little white dot is a pretty large boat that takes tourists up and down the lake.
We stayed up on top as long as we could, watching the sky change as sunset approached.
Christmas Day dawned clear and beautiful. We took a drive along the lake. As the day went on, the weather fell apart, so the following photos give various moods of Lake Wakatipu even though they were taken in the span of only a few hours.
When we left Queenstown the day after Christmas, we headed north over a pass. Looking down from the pass, there was a nice view of Arrowtown nestled at the foot of the hills.
About an hour north of Queenstown is Wanaka, another resort town on a lake with mountains in the background, smaller and less touristy than Queenstown. People say Wanaka is a lot like Queenstown was twenty years ago. It was gray and cloudy when we got there (next photo), then brightened up pretty quickly (last two photos).
For those of you who are golfers, the next photo zooms in on the golf course.
From the top of the gondola, you can look to the north and east towards Arrowtown, a charming little town only a few miles away. Yesterday the newspaper said that Bill Gates is spending New Year's in Arrowtown. It felt just like being back in Seattle to have Bill Gates's travels in the newspaper.
The next photo looks down the lake to the southwest. The little white dot is a pretty large boat that takes tourists up and down the lake.
We stayed up on top as long as we could, watching the sky change as sunset approached.
Christmas Day dawned clear and beautiful. We took a drive along the lake. As the day went on, the weather fell apart, so the following photos give various moods of Lake Wakatipu even though they were taken in the span of only a few hours.
When we left Queenstown the day after Christmas, we headed north over a pass. Looking down from the pass, there was a nice view of Arrowtown nestled at the foot of the hills.
About an hour north of Queenstown is Wanaka, another resort town on a lake with mountains in the background, smaller and less touristy than Queenstown. People say Wanaka is a lot like Queenstown was twenty years ago. It was gray and cloudy when we got there (next photo), then brightened up pretty quickly (last two photos).
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