Queenstown - Day 3

[david63]

This is our last day in Queenstown before moving on tomorrow.

Our plan was always to take it easy today and try and see something of the town but due to yeterday's rearranged plans we had already seen the majority of the town.

We started off by taking a walk through Queenstown Gardens which are about a 10 minute walk from where we are staying and lead into the tow. Rather than taking the shortest route, which we had already done, the idea was to walk the lake route. One issue that we have found with Queenstown is that any maps that are providwd locally are a bit (no make that a lot) lacking in scale - somewhere may look as if it will take half an hour to reach when in fact it only takes a few minutes. Anyway we took the lake route which meant that we had done the route in less than half an hour - so what next? Ah there is a steamer boat that goes up and down the lake so we thought let's try that.

At bour appointed time we arrive at the steamer, have obligatory photos taken, board the boat and get some seats out on deck. All is going to plan until there is another invasion of Japenese tourists. Now I habe nothing against the Japenese but when they take over the whole of the deck area taking photos of each other in every possible combination you could imagine and being totally inconsiderate about anyone else being on the boat. Fortunately they got off at the halfway point which meant that the return journey was far more enjoyable and more like we had expected on the way out.




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