View from our hotel window
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Shame about the crane
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Lake Wakatipu from the Earnslaw jetty
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Mount something or other
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The Remarkables in the distance. The one with a cloud top is Double Cone.
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Queenstown from the jetty
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Lake Wakatipu
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TSS Earnslaw
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Earnslaw's smokestack
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Queenstown at night
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The sighseeing Gondola. Couldn't go up it because it was booked out privately to yet another load of Japanese tourists
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Earnslaw turning round on a mirror lake
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Engine room aboard TSS Earnslaw
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Ditto
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Makin' smoke!
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The bar on Earnslaw
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Earnslaw's bow. Yes, this is the same one that Billy Connolly went on.
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Walter Peak station, Earnslaw's turn-around point
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Inside the prow
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A daft menu fairly typical of Queenstown
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Come on, you didn't expect me to come all this way and NOT visit a Holden dealer did you?
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Our room. The cross-beams were dusty
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Our 4x4 after a couple of days
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The end of the universe - I mean, lake: Glenorchy
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Mud
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Really quite thick mud
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Our plane out, coming in to land
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It's a fun descent among the mountains
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Down safely - puff of tyre smoke just visible to the right
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