Central Otago, Blue Lake

 
A man made lake that was the result of years of hydrolic mining - called "sluicing"?!

Parachute!

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Carson here;

We were lucky enough to get to go to Parachute Music Festival; the biggest Christian Music Festival in the Southern Hemisphere. Somewhere around 25,000 people came to Mystery Creek, just outside of Hamilton, to sample the many bands playing throughout the weekend. Did I sound enough like a news broadcaster there? I did my best.

Anyways, we saw a bunch of great bands. Lieutenant Funk, Rapture Ruckus, Leeland [phenomenal], Kingston [abysmal], NewWorldSon [energetic and Canadian], Family Force 5 [Much to crunk for Mum and Dad], and Switchfoot [The Best]

To the West Coast

We had to stop for sheep on the highway to the west coast. Only in NZ

Central Otaga Rail Trail

Pickards took us on a great walk (boys biked, we walked) on the Rail Trail. We only did a few kms, but you could go for 150! Next time!

Queenstown

We did some more site seeing in this very trendy, tourist-y place. The guys played a round of disc golf in the Queenstown gardens. . . a very funky and challenging course. Challenging because it was set on a slope, and if your disc started to role, it landed in the lake!

On to Central Otago

We visited the Pickards, near Alexandra, and spent three great days in the Central Otago area. Great, serene expanses of farm land.

More South Island photos

Dunedin was one of our favourite cities to visit. Strongly influenced by the Scottish, lots of beautiful architecture, great character, set on the side of the hills looking down onto the Otago Harbour. We said often that we wished we had more time to explore some of these beautiful places!