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March 6-9, 2015

Road Trip Journal – March 6, 2015 (Te Anau to Queenstown)

  • Te Anau -> Queenstown.
  • Lunch at Fergberger. Awesome burgers. Worth the wait and ducking inside from the rain.
  • Underwater World. A & B $5/each. Brenden enjoyed it.
  • Stayed at Frankton Motor Camp $101/night for cabin with table & fridge. Easy lake access. Nice views.
From Te Anau to Queenstown
It was a gloomy day when we arrived in Queenstown
Holy crowded Fergberger (best burgers we had in NZ, worth the wait.)
We stayed just outside of Queenstown at Frankton Motor Camp, and this was our view over the cabins below us.

Road Trip Journal – March 7, 2015 (Queenstown)

  • Chard Farm Winery. Beautiful views. Purchased Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir.
  • Visited A.J. Hacket Bungy Complex at Kawarau Bridge. Saw one jumper & watched a movie. Alex decided he wanted to do it.
  • Peregrine Winery. Interesting architecture. Purchased a Riesling and a dessert Riesling.
  • Boys went to Frankton Driving Range
  • D – morning run along lake side.
  • D/T – Dinner at Frankton Alehouse. Nice view, decent prices, decent food + beer.
There was easy lake access from the motorcamp
Wine tasting!
No Kitty! My wine!
Gorgeous ravine. Vineyards on the left, highway on the right
The birthplace of bungee jumping

Road Trip Journal – March 8, 2015 (Queenstown)

  • Skyline Gondola & Luge. Family pass includes 10 luge rides $125. Definitely worth it. Great views + fun luge.
  • Lunch at Market Cafe. Don’t recommend, expensive and not good.
  • A.J. Hacket Ledge bungy. Awesome! Booked ahead using bookme.com for B & T $136/each. Paid same day for Alex for $145. Full price adult would have been $195. $35/each for online photos. Free t-shirt & certificate
  • Met Dafne there & luged together.
  • Dinner w/ Dafne at their vacation apartment.
In the gondola heading up
I happen to have a few friends who say I have a big head. Literally, not figuratively. Anyway, I was so happy when the boys needed blue helmets and I only needed a red helmet. Big head, whatever!
Here’s the photographic evidence of my non-big head. Wait, what! The helmet looks orange (XL)!!! I swear it was NOT orange, it was red!
These are our friends from s/v Dafne. They sailed all the way to Australia this year but were visiting New Zealand, and we managed to hook up in Queenstown.

Click here to see the bungee jumping photos!

Road Trip Journal – March 9, 2015 (Queenstown–> Franz Josef Glacier)

  • Queenstown –> Franz Josef
  • Stopped in Arrowtown. Very cute. Dudley’s Cottage panning for gold. $15/each for lesson and panning on the river.
  • To be continued…
Arrowtown was just a short drive from Queenstown
Getting a gold panning lesson in Arrowtown
Brenden’s “handful of treasure”

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